72nd Martyrdom Day of Gandhi
WHEN GODSE'S CHILDREN RULE
INDIA GANDHI IS CRUCIFIED EVERYDAY
The
October 6, 2019 issue of Organizer, English organ of RSS, was
dedicated to 'Mahatma Gandhi', celebrating his birthday; the October 2. Our PM
Modi who identifies himself as 'a Hindu nationalist' also remembers Gandhiji regularly,
his ideological parent, RSS displaying Gandhiji's photo too in some of its
meetings.
This
love of RSS for Gandhiji is a hoax and needed to be judged by going through the
following ideas and practices of this organization which are brazenly inimical
to the ideals of Gandhiji.
MODI AS FATHER OF INDIA
During PM Modi's September 2019 visit to the US, the
latter's President Trump while heaping unprecedented praise on his close friend
Modi declared him to be 'Father of
India'. Modi and his followers did relish this epithet as there was no
attempt by PM or his government to correct Trump that India already had one
'Father' and a Nation with two 'Fathers' would be an abnormality. On the
contrary, a senior minister in the Modi's cabinet, Jitender Singh known for his
proximity to Modi publically defended Trump for describing his patron as
'Father of India'.
BJP IT-CELL
INCHARGE CALLS FOR AUCTION OF GODSE'S REVOLVER TO PROVE HIS POPULARITY
Vicky
Mittal, BJP IT-Cell Indore in-charge demanded that in order to decide who is
more popular in India, whether Gandhi or Godse, the pistol of Godse with which
he killed Gandhiji should be put on auction. His tweet read : एक बार गोडसे जी की पिस्तौल नीलाम करके देखो तो पता चल जाएगा की देश-भक्त था या आतंकवादी! He seemed to be sure that Godse,
the killer of Gandhi would win hands down!
GANDHIJI AS CHATUR BANIYA
Amit Shah while addressing a RSS-BJP in Chhattisgarh in
2018 while belittling the role of Congress, in the freedom struggle, went on to
discuss Gandhiji. According to him Gandhiji, to quote original words in Hindi, “bahut
chatur baniya tha woh”. It needs to be noted here that by this categorization
Shah, in fact, borrowed the language of M.A. Jinnah who always referred Gandhiji
as ‘Hindu baniya’ who represented only Hindus. So in the vocabulary of
this Hindutva icon, Shah, Gandhiji was reduced to the status of a Hindu
leader which the Muslim League always propagated and propagates even today.
RSS WAS FORMED IN OPPOSITION TO GANDHIJI'S CALL FOR
HINDU-MUSLIM UNITY
The RSS’ hatred for Gandhiji is as old as the
formation of the RSS itself. Dr K.B. Hedgewar, the founder of the RSS, was a
Congress leader but parted company with the latter in 1925. After meeting Hindutva
icon V.D. Savarkar, he realised that Gandhiji was the biggest hurdle in the Hindutva
project of organising Hindus separately. According to an RSS publication, since
Gandhiji worked for Hindu-Muslim unity,
“Doctorji
sensed danger in that move. In fact, he did not even relish the new-fangled
slogan of ‘Hindu-Muslim unity”.
Another RSS publication corroborates the fact that the
main reason behind Hedgewar’s parting with the Congress and formation of the
RSS was because the “Congress believed
in Hindu-Muslim unity”.
RSS & MUSLIM LEAGUE ORGANS COMPETED IN DENIGRATING
GANDHIJI
The RSS launched its English organ, Organiser,
in July 1947 and a perusal of its issues till the murder of Gandhiji on January
30, 1948 shows a flood of articles and sketches inimical to Gandhiji. The RSS
seemed to be competing with the Hindu Mahasabha leader, Savarkar, and the
Muslim League organ, The Dawn, in denigrating Gandhiji.
GANDHIJI MURDER & RSS
The first Home Minister of India, Sardar Patel, whom
the RSS often praises, was forthright in holding the RSS and Hindu Maha-sabha
responsible for creating an environment of hatred against Gandhiji which
resulted in the latter’s murder. He underlined it in a letter (July 18, 1948)
to the prominent leader of the Hindu Mahasabha, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee:
“As
regards the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha, the case relating to Gandhiji’s murder
is subjudice and I should not like to say anything about the participation of
the two organisations, but our reports do confirm that, as a result of the
activities of these two bodies, particularly the former, an atmosphere was
created in the country in which such a ghastly tragedy became possible. There
is no doubt in my mind that the extreme section of the Hindu Mahasabha was
involved in the conspiracy.”
Eight months after Gandhiji’s assassination, Sardar
Patel, in a letter (September 11, 1948) to RSS chief Golwalkar, was
straightforward in telling that it was due to the communal poison spread by the
RSS that
“the
country had to suffer the sacrifice of the invaluable life of Gandhiji. Even an
iota of the sympathy of the Government or of the people, no more remained with
the RSS...Opposition turned more severe, when the RSS men expressed joy and
distributed sweets after Gandhiji’s death.”
The RSS may be displaying a photo of Gandhiji in some
of its programmes and may describe him as Mahatma but its hatred keeps on
recurring; it is shaswat, perennial. After the Modi Government came to
power in 2014, the RSS/BJP leaders have been demanding national recognition, as
freedom fighters, for the killers of Gandhiji. Temples are coming up with the
images of Godse who was the main killer of Gandhiji. The Hindutva
organisations have been celebrating the killing of Gandhiji as the ‘vadh’
of a demon at the altar of Hindu Rashtra. It is to be noted that
Nathuram Godse and others who conspired to kill M.K. Gandhiji, claimed to be
‘Hindu Nationalists’. Sakshi Maharaj, Pragya Thakur, Usha Thakur declared Godse
as the greatest patriot.
If you believe that all this is happening without the
knowledge of the RSS/BJP‘s top leadership, you are grossly mistaken. A
prominent Hindutva organisation, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS),
allied to the RSS, has been regularly holding national conventions for ‘Establishment
of a Hindu Nation’ in India. In June 2013 one such convention was
held in Goa. It is to be noted that members of one avatar of the HJS, Sanatan
Sanstha, have been found indulging in bomb blasts at Muslim institutions
and are under investigation for the murder of renowned secular intellectuals
like Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar. This convention started its
proceedings with a felicitation message from the then CM of Gujarat,
Narendrabhai Modi, on June 1, wishing the HJS all success in its project of
turning India into a Hindu Nation.
Shockingly, from the same dais in this convention from
where Modi’s felicitation message was read, one of the prominent speakers, K.V.
Sitaramiah, declared on June 10, 2013 that Gandhi was ‘terrible, wicked and most sinful’. Rejoicing at the killing of
M.K. Gandhi, he went on to declare,
“As
Bhagwan Shri Krishna said in the Gita, ParitranayaSadhunamVinashaya Cha
Dush-kritam/DharamasansthapnayaSambhavamiYuge-Yuge (For the protection of the good,
for the destruction of the wicked and for the establishment of righteousness, I
am born in every age) on...30th January 1948 evening, Shri Ram came in the form
of Nathuram Godse and ended the life of Gandhi.”
K.V. Sitaramiah has also authored a book, titled Gandhi was Dharma Drohi and DesaDrohi,
in which the text at the back cover, quoting from the epic Mahabharata, demands that ‘Dharma Drohis must be killed’, ‘Not
killing the deserved to be killed is a great sin’ and ‘where the Members of Parliament seeing clearly allow to kill Dharma
and truth as untruth, those members will be called dead’.
Gandhiji was assassinated
on January 30, 1948 by a gang of Hindutva zealots, sadly, their ideological
children rule India today demolishing whatever was dear to him.
Shamsul Islam
January 30, 2020.
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