Author: KR Phanda
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: September 5, 2005
As usual, Mr CP Bhambhari has gone
off the tangent in his article, "RSS is the only reality" (August
25). The sum and substance of his 1,000-word piece is: Sangh Parivar
is anti-Muslim. How and why, he does not care to elucidate. He is
oblivious to the fact that the hallmarks of Hindu leadership - be
it the Congress, the BJP or any other regional outfit - are self-aggrandisement
and hypocrisy. Therefore, Hindu leaders have proved to be the greatest
enemy of the Hindus and Hindu ethos.
The interest of the nation or that
of the Hindus have never figured in the lust for power and self-promotion
of the Hindu leadership either before independence or afterwards.
All through the 20th century, ever since Gandhi came on the scene,
Hindu leaders have treated India as their personal fiefdom and Hindus
as slaves. Gandhi did not mind even the slaughter of the Hindus provided
it kept the Muslims happy.
VP Menon whose brilliance and objectivity
was recognised both by the British rulers and the Indian leaders
had this to say about Gandhi: "He lived for it (Muslim community).
Indeed he eventually died for it!" (The Transfer of Power in India,
Orient Longmans, Delhi, 1957, p 442). Nehru who succeeded him after
independence, provided for special rights and privileges - Articles
25 and Article 30 - for Muslims in the Objective Resolution moved
by him in the Constituent Assembly even before Clement Atlee, the
British Prime Minister, had announced his Government's decision to
grant independence to India.
Nowhere else in the world except
India would one find that a minority has been given a separate homeland
and yet allowed to stay on in the same country. India is the sole
example where a majority has been reduced to the status of a second-class
citizenary. lt is testified by the fact that the most sacred places
of the Hindus are still under occupation of the Muslims even after
six decades of independence. Is it not the same minority, which plundered
the Hindu civilisation for six hundred years?
Christian Europe was also subject
to Muslim invasion for 1000 years. Has it given it invaders separate
homelands or superior rights to Muslims on its soil? British saved
the Hindu civilisation from the clutches of Muslim barbarism at the
battle of Plassey in 1757 AD. Before their departure in 1947, the
British performed their last act of grace.
To put an end to the ever-recurring
Hindu-Muslim discords, they agreed to the creation of Pakistan for
the Indian ummah, but only after the Muslim community had overwhelmingly
voted for the division of India in the election held in 1945-46.
Muslim leaders were at least forthright and honest to the core. They
repeatedly declared in 1946-47 that because of their religious compulsions
Muslims could never live peacefully with Hindus on the same soil.
True to its name. Pakistan - the
land of the pure - Hindus and Sikhs were ethnically cleansed from
its Western wing in 1947-48. Jinnah, descendant of a Gujrati parent
created a homeland for his community - a unique feat in world history.
Gandhi, another Gujrati, destroyed the Hindu identity by re-sowing
the seeds of Islamic rule in India.
Gandhi perpetrated a fraud on Hindus
driven out of Pakistan by not asking Muslim to leave for their Darul
Islam. The rise of Gandhi on the political horizon of India after
the death of BG Tilak in 1920 was the second greatest calamity that
befell the Hindus after the establishment of Muslim rule in India
in 1206 AD.
