The accumulating provocation of 32 years culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhiji should be brought to an end immediately. On coming back to India he developed a subjective the second fiddle to all hi s eccentricity, whimsicality,metaphysics and Primitive vision or it had to carry on withou thim. He alone was the judge of every one and everything; he was the master brain guiding the civil disobedience movement;nobody else knew the technique of that movement; he alone knew when to begin it and when to withdraw it. The move mentmay succeed or fail; it my bring untold disasters and political reverses but that could make no difference to the Mahatma’ sinfallibility. ‘A Satyagrahi can never fail’ was his formula for declaring – his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew who a Setyagrahi was. Thus Gandhiji became the judge and the counsel in his own case. These childish inanities and obstinacies coupled with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character made Gandhiji formidable and irresistible. Many people thought his politics were irrational but they had either to withdraw from the Congress or to place their intelligence at his feet to do what he liked with it. In a position of such absolute irresponsibility Gandhiji was guilty of blunder after blunder,failure after failure and disaster after disaster. No one single political victory can be claimed to his credit during 33 years of his political predominance. Herein below I mention in some detail the series of blunders which he committed during 32 years of his undisputed leadership.
I shall now describe briefly the enormous mischief done bythe slogans and the nostrums which Gandhiji prescribed andfollowed, in pursuance of his policy, the fatal results that we nowknow. Here are some of them :-
(The speech has been condensed by us…to give u an overview)
a)khilafat-Gandhi wanted to be leaders of muslims by supporting this movement.
b)Moplah Rebellion-Malabar, Punjab, Bengal and N. W. F.Province were the scene of repeated outrages on the Hindus.
c)Afghan Amir Intrigue- When the Khilafat movement failed Ali Brothers decided to do something which might keep alive the Khilafat sentiments. Their slogan was that whoever was the enemy of the Khilafat was also the enemy of Islam and as the British were chiefly responsible for the defeat and the dethronement of the Sultan of Turkey, every faithful Muslim was in solemn duty bound to be a bitter enemy of Britain. With that object they secretly intrigued to invite the Amir or Afghanistan to invade. India and promised him every support.
The Mahatma supported the invasion in the following words : “I cannot understand why the Ali Brothers are. going to be arrested as the rumours go, and why I am to remain free. They have done nothing which I would not do. If they had sent a message, to Amir, I also would send one to inform the Amir that if he came, no Indian so long as Ican help it, would help the Government to drive him back.”
d)Attack on Arya Samaj-Gandhiji ostentatiously displayed his love for Muslims by a most unworthy and unprovoked attack on the Arya Samaj in 1924.Gandhiji’s attack did not improve his popularity with the Muslims but it provoked a Muslim youth to murder Swami Shraddhanandji within a few months.
(e)Separation of Sind-By 1928 Mr. Jinnah’s stock had risen very high and the Mahatma had already conceded many unfair and improper demands of Mr. Jinnah at the expense of Indian democracy and the. Indian nation and the Hindus.
(f)League’s Good Bye to Congress – With each defeat Gandhiji became even more keen on his method of achieving Hindu-Muslim Unity. Like the ,gambler who had lost heavily he became more desperate increasing his stakes each time and indulged in the most irrational concessions, if only they could placate Mr. Jinnah and enlist his support under the Mahatma’s leadership in the fight for freedom.
g)Round – Table Conference and Communal Award to Ramsay
h) Cripp’s Partition Proposal Accepted
i)‘Quit-India’ by Congress and Divide and Quit’ by League
j)Hindi Versus Hindustani-Absurdly pro. Muslim policy of Gandhiji is nowhere more blatantly illustrated than in his perverse attitude on the question of the National Language of India. BY all the tests of a scientific language, Hindi has the most prior claim to be accepted as the National Language of this country. In the beginning of his career in India, Gandhiji gave. a great impetus to Hindi but as he found that the Muslims did not like it, he became a turncoat and blossomed forth as the champion of what is called, Hindustani. Every body in India
knows that there is no language called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary; it is a mere dialect; it is spoken but not written. It is a bastard tongue and a crossbreed between
Hindi and Urdu and not even the Mahatma’s sophistry could make it popular; but in his desire to please the Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national language of India. His blind supporters of course blindly supported him and the so-called hybrid tongue began to be used. Words like’ Badshah Ram’ and ’Begum Sita’ were spoken and written butthe Mahatma never dared to speak of Mr. Jinnah as Sri Jinnahand Maulana Azad as Pandit Azad. All his experiments were atthe expense of the Hindus. His was a one-way traffic in hissearch of Hindu-Muslim Unity. The charm and the purity of the Hindi Language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims, but even Congressmen, apart from the rest of India refused to digest this nostrum. He continued to persist in his support to Hindustani The bulk of the Hindus however proved to bestronger and more loyal to their culture and to their mother tongue and refused to bow down to the Mahatmic fiat. The result was that Gandhiji did not prevail in the Hindi Parishad and had to resign from that body; his pernicious influence however remains and the Congress Governments in India still hesitatewhether to select Hindi or Hindustani as the National Language of India. The barest common sense should make it clear to the meanest intelligence that the language of 80 per cent of the people must be the language of the country but his ostentatious support of the Muslims made him look almost idiotic when he continued to stand for Hindustani. Happily there are millions and millions of champions of the Hindi language and the Devnagari script. The U.P. Government has adopted Hindi as.the language of the Province. The Committee appointed by the Government of India has translated the whole of the Draft Constitution in pure Hindi and it now remains for the Congress Party in the legislature to adopt the commensurable view in favour of Hindi or assert their loyalty to the Mahatma in their mad endeavour to force a foreign language on a great country like India. For practical purpose Hindustani is only Urdu under a different name, but Gandhiji could not have the courage to
advocate the adoption of Urdu as against Hindi, hence the subterfuge to smuggle Urdu under the garb of Hindustani. Urdu is not banned by any nationalist Hindu but to smuggle it under the garb of Hindustani is a fraud and a crime. That is what the Mahatma tried to do. To bolster up a dialect in School Curriculum and in educational institutions that non-existent language in the garb of Hindustani because it pleased the Muslims was the communalism of the. worst type on the part of the Mahatma. All these for Hindu- Muslim Unity.
k)Vande Mataram Not to be Sung
l)Shiva Bavani Banned -Gandhiji banned the public recital orperusal of Shiva Bavani a beautiful collection of 52 verses by aHindu poet in which he had extolled the great power of Shivaji and the protection which he brought to the Hindu community
and the Hindu religion. The refrain of that collection says ‘if there were no Shivaji, the entire country would have been converted to Islam.’ (Here recite the couplet from the Book‘Shiva Bavani’ ending with the words
(Kashiji Ki Kala jati Mathura masjid hoti Shivaji jo na hote toSunnat hot Sabki)
This was the delight of millions of contemporary history and abeautiful piece of literature, but Gandhiji would have none of it.Hindu- Muslim Unity ndeed .
m)Suhrawardy Patronised-When the Muslim League refused to join the provisional Government which Lord Wavell invited Pandit Nehru to form, the League started a Council of Direct Action against any Government farmed by Pandit Nehru, On the15th of August 1946. A little more than two weeks before Pandit Nehru was to take office, there broke out in Calcutta an open massacre of the Hindus which continued for three days unchecked. The horrors of these days are described in the’Statesman’ newspaper of Calcutta. At the time is was considered that the Government which could permit such outrages on its citizens must be thrown out; there were actual suggestions that Mr. Suhrawardy’s Government should be dismissed, but the socialist Governor refused to take up the administration under Section 93 of the Government of India Act. Gandhiji however went to Calcutta and contracted a strange friendship with the author of these massacres, in fact he
intervened on behalf of Suhrawardy and the Muslim League.During the three days that the massacre of Hindus took place,the police in Calcutta did not interfere for the protection of life or property, innumerable outrages were practised under the veryeyes and nose of the guardians of law. but nothing mattered to Gandhiji. To him Suhrawardy was an object of admiration from which he could not be diverted and publicly described Suhrawardy as a Martyr. No wonder two months later there was the most virulent outbreak of Muslim fanaticism in Noakhaliand Tipperah 30,000 Hindu women were forcibly converted according to a report of Arya Samaj, the total number of Hinduskilled or wounded was three lacs not to say the crores of rupeesworth of property looted and destroyed. Gandhiji then under took. ostensibly alone, a tour of Noakhali District. It is wall known that Suhrawardy gave him protection wherever he went and even with that protection Gandhiji never ventured to enter Noakhali District. All these outrages, loss of life and property were done when Surhawardy was the Prime Minister and to such a monster of inequity and communal poison Gandhiji gave the unsolicited title of Martyr.
n)Gandhiji On Fast to Capacity-in 1943 while Gandhiji was onfast to capacity and nobody was allowed to interview him on
political affairs, only the nearest and the dearest had thepermission to go and enquire of his health. Mr. C.Rajagopalachari smuggled himself into Gandhiji’s room and hatched a plot of conceding Pakistan which Gandhiji allowed him to negotiate with Jinnah. Gandhiji later on discussed this matter for three weeks with Mr. Jinnah in the later part of 1944and offered Mr. Jinnah virtually what is now called Pakistan.Gandhiji went every day to Mr. Jinnah’s house, flattered him.praised him, embraced him, but Mr. Jinnah could not be cajoled out of his demand for the Pakistan pound of flesh. Hindu Muslim Unity was making progress in the negative direction
o)Desai-Liaquat Agreement – (i) In 1945 came -the notoriousDesai-Liaquat Agreement. It put one more, almost the last, nailon the coffin of the ,Congress as a, National democratic body.Under that agreement, the late Mr. Bhulabhai Desai the thenleader of the Congress party in the Central Legislative Assemblyat Delhi entered into an agreement with Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan,the League Leader in ilie Assembly, jointly to demand aConference from the British Government for the solution of thestalemate in Indian politics which was growing since thebeginning of the War, Mr. Desai was understood to have takenthat step without consulting anybody of any importance in theCongress circle, as almost all the Congress leaders had beendetained since the ‘Quit India’ Resolution in 1942. Mr. Desaioffered equal representation to the Muslims with Congress atthe said Conference and this. was the basis on which the Viceroywas approached to convene the Conference. The then ViceroyLord Wavell flew to London on receipt of this joint request andbrought back the consent of the Labour Government for theholding of the Conference. The official announcement in thisbehalf stupified the country on account of its treachery alike tonationalism and democracy to which the Congress had become aparty. Indian democracy was stabbed in the back and everyprinciple of justice was violated. The Congress members quicklyacquierced in this monstrous proposal. The proposal howeverhad, it was then revealed, the blessings of the Mahatma and wasin fact made with his previous knowledge and consent. With the
full agreement of the Congress party 25% of the people of India were. treated as if they were 50% and the 75% were brought down to the level of 50%. The Viceroy also laid down other conditions for the holding of the Conference. They were :
(1) An unqualified undertaking on the part of the Congress andall political parties to support the war against Japan until victory was won.
(2) A coalition Government would be formed in which the Congress and the Muslims would each have five representatives.There will besides be a representative of the depressed classes,of the Sikhs and other Minorities.
(3) The Quit India’ Movement will be unconditionally withdrawn and such of the Congress leaders as had been detained in consequence of the Movement would be released.
(4) All measures of Administrative Reform will be within the four corners of the Government of India Act 1935.
(5) The Governor-General and the Viceroy shall retain the same constitutional position in the new setup as he had at that timei.e. he would remain the head of new Government.
(6) At the end of the war, the question of complete freedom will be decided through the machinery of the Constituent Assembly.(7) If these were without any modification the Viceroy would reconstitute his Government with all portfolios to be held by Indians as per (2) above
p)Congress Surrenders to Jinnah – By the following year the Congress Party abjectly surrendered to Mr. Jinnah at the point of bayonet and accepted Pakistan. What happened thereafter is too well-known. The thread running throughout this narrative is the increasing infatuation which Gandhiji developed for the Muslims. He uttered not one work of sympathy or comfort for millions of displaced Hindus, he had only one eye for humanity and that was the Muslim humanity. The Hindus simply did no tcount with him. I was shocked by all these manifestations of Gandhian saintliness.
q)Ambiguous Statement about Pakistan – In one of his articles,Gandhiji while nominally ostensibly opposed to Pakistan, openly declared that if the Muslims wanted Pakistan at any cost, there was nothing to prevent them from achieving it. Only the Mahatma could understand what that declaration meant. Was it a prophesy or a declaration or disapproval of the demand for Pakistan ?
r)advice to Kashmir Maharaja – About Kashmir, Gandhiji again and again declared that Sheikh Abdullah should been trusted the charge of the state and that the Maharaja of Kashmir should retire to Benares for no particular reason than that the muslims formed the bulk of the Kashmir. population.This also stands out in contrast with his attitude on Hyderabad where although the bulk of the Population is Hindu, Gandhiji never called upon the Nizam to retire to Mecca.
s)Mountbatten vivisects India-From August 15, 1946 onwards the private armies of the Muslim League began killing,devastating and destroying the Hindus wherever they could lay their hands on. Lord Wavell, the then viceroy was undoubtedly gently ,distressed at what was happening but he would not use his powers under the Government of India Act of 1935 to prevent such a holocaust and Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with mild reactions in the Deccan. All the time from the 2nd September 1946 the so called National Government consisting of two hybrid elements utterly reconcilable to each other was in office but the Muslim League members who were 50% of the Congress did every thing in their power to make the working of a Coalition Government impossible. The Muslim League members did everything they could to sabotage the coalition Government but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the Government of which they formed a part, the greater was Gandhiji’s infatuation for them. Lord Wavell had to resign as he could not bring about a settlement. He had some conscience which prevented him from supporting the partition of India. He had openly declared it to be unnecessary and undesirable. But his retirement was followed by the appointment of Mountbatten. King Log was followed by King Stork. This Supreme Commander of the South East Asia was a purely Military man aid he had a great reputation for daring,and tenacity. He came to India with a determination to do or die and he ‘did’ namely he vivisected India. He was more indifferent to human slaughter. Rivers of blood flowed under his very eyes and nose. He apparently was thinking that by the slaughter of Hindus so many opponents of his mission were killed, the greater the slaughter of the enemies greater the victory, and he pursued his aim relentlessly to its logical conclusion. Long before June 1948 the official date for handing over power, the wholesale murders of the Hindus had their full effect. The Congress which had boasted of its nationalism and democracy secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the point of the bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Mr. Jinnah. India was vivisected. One third of the Indian territory became foreign land to us from the 15th of August 1947. Lord Mountbatten came to be described in Congress Circle as the greatest Viceroy and Governor Genera lIndia had ever known. He had gifted ten months earlier than 30th June 1948 what is called Dominion status to vivisected India. This is what Gandhiji had achieved after thirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what the Congress Party calls Freedom’. Never in the history of the world has such slaughter been officially connived at or the result described as Freedom, and ’Peaceful Transfer of power’ If what happened in India in 1946, 1947 and 1948 is to be called peaceful one wonders what would be the violent. Hindu Muslim Unity bubble was finally burst and a theocratic and communal State dissociated from everything that smacked of United India was established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they have called it ‘Freedom won by them at sacrifice’ Whose sacrifice?
t)Gandhiji on Cow – slaughter – Gandhiji used to display a most vehement desire for the, protection of the cow. But in fact he did no effort in that direction. On the contrary, in one of his post prayer speeches, he has admitted his inability to support the demand for stopping cow-slaughter. An extract from his speech in this connection is reproduced below. Today Rajendra Babu informed me that he had received some fifty-thousand postcards, 20-30 thousand telegrams urging prohibition of cow-slaughter by law. In this connection I have spoken to you before also. After all why are so many letters and telegrams sent to me.They have not served any purpose. No law prohibiting cow-slaughter? India can be enacted. How can I impose my will upon a person who does not wish voluntarily to abandon cow-slaughter India does not belong exclusively to the Hindu&.Muslims, Parsees, Christians also live here. The claim of the Hindus that India has become the land of the Hindus is totally incorrect. This land belongs to all who live here. I know anorthodox Vaishnava Hindu. He used to give beef soup to his child.
u)Removal of Tri – Colour Flag – The tricolour flag with the Charkha on it was adopted by the Congress as the National Flag out of deference to Gandhiji. There were flag salutations onin numerable occasions. The flag was unfurled at every Congress meeting. It fluttered in hundreds at every session of National Congress, The Prabhat Pheries were never complete unless theflag was carried while the march was on. On the occasion of every imaginary or real success of the Congress Party, public buildings, shops and private residences were decorated with that flag. If any Hindu attached any importance to Shivaji,s Hinduflag, “Bhagva Zenda” the flag which freed India from the Muslim-domination it was considered communal. Gandhiji’stricoloured flag never protected any Hindu woman from outrage or a Hindu temple from desecration, yet the late Bhai Parmanand was once mobbed- by enthusiastic Congressmen for not paying homage to that flag. University students showed their patriotism by mounting that flag on University building. A Mayor of Bombay is believed to have lost his Knight hood because his wife hoisted this flag on the Corporation building.Such was supposed to be the allegiance of the Congress people to their “National Flag”. When the Mahatma was touring Noakhali and Tipperah in 1946 after the beastly outrages on the Hindus,the flag was flying on his temporary hut. But when a muslim dame there and objected to the presence of the flag on his head,Gandhiji quickly directed its removal. All the reverential sentiments of millions of Congressmen towards that flag were affronted in a minute, because that would please an isolatedmuslim fanatic and yet the so-called Hindu-Muslim unity never took shape .
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