Congress’ anti-Modi politics continues its anti-Tilak/Aurobindo legacy – VII
| by Radha Rajan | on 30 Dec 2013 | 5 Comments |
Gujarat Riots 2002 and Bihar Riots 1946-47 – Gandhi as Teesta Setalvad: A five member team headed by Justice Tewatia comprising media professionals, Supreme Court advocates and reputed academicians travelled to Gujarat in the wake of the Gujarat riots in 2002 and compiled their findings in a report. According to this report –
On the 22nd of February, this year, the Sabarmati express started from Faizabad 225 minutes late. On that fateful day, 2300 pilgrims were traveling by the train. Most of them were returning from Ayodhya after the Purna Ahuti yagna. Most of the Muslim passengers got down at Dahod railway station and the rest of them at Godhra and it appears that when the train was torched there were no Muslim passengers in the train except those who were to stop the train by pulling the chain as part of the conspiracy to burn the pilgrims alive.
At 7.47 Hrs the train started to move from Godhra station but stopped for a few moments as some passengers could not board the train. It finally left the station but came to a halt about 700 metres away from the station as someone had pulled the chain. The vacuum pipe between coaches S6 and S7 was cut thereby preventing any further movement of the train. Miscreants threw stones and bricks at the train. As soon as the train left the Godhra station, the stoning intensified after the train stopped about 700 metres away at a place called Falia.
The passengers of the coaches S5, S6 and S7 particularly were the main targets. The passengers reportedly shut the doors and windows to protect themselves. Burning missiles and acid bulbs were thrown at and into the coaches and one such missile landed in coach S7. The fire spread but was controlled by the passengers. The attack continued and more burning missiles were thrown into coach S6. Soon S6 caught fire and within minutes it was in flames. Passengers who managed to get out of the burning compartment were attacked with sharp weapons. Some of them got out through the windows and took shelter below the coach.
After some time, between 20 and 40 minutes, fire engines arrived at the scene and took about half an hour to extinguish the fire. Inside the coach 58 charred bodies were found. They included 26 women and 12 children. Those who had seen the charred bodies, shiver even weeks after the incident while recalling the gory scene. Even a cursory look at the photograph of the charred bodies is a chilling experience. Forty-three injured persons were rushed to the civil hospital at Godhra with different degrees of burns. The train left Godhra at about 12.30 Hrs minus coach S6. Fifty-eight dead and 43 injured.
Fifty-eight Hindu pilgrims including 26 women and 12 children were charred beyond recognition in the fire set off by Islamic terrorists. For Hindus it matters little if the terrorists were Indian or Pakistani. Gujarat’s Hindus reacted with fury and in the first three days after the terror attack went on the rampage and Gujarat was in the grip of communal riots. There have been several communal riots in Gujarat prior to 2002, big and small. The riots of 1946, 1969, 1985, 1992, 1995 and 2002 were major riots. The 1969 riots, as those in 1946, were triggered by terror attack on the day of asad sud or the day of the rath yatra of Bhagwan Jagannath.
In 2002, Gujarat Chief Minister asked the central government to send in the army to quell the riots and the army began its work by 11AM on the 1st of March – in less than 72 hours. During all prior riots in Gujarat, the state was ruled by the Congress party and the world then did not treat Gujarat or its Chief Ministers as the world’s most hated political untouchables. But Gujarat of 2002 and RSS-pracharak-turned-Chief Minister Narendra Modi became the White Christian world’s new anti-Christ. Hindu nationalism, for America and Europe was the new anti-Christ.
All the world including Hindu political mercenaries in the country and Generic Church supported and funded NGO industry collectively turned against Modi as one, not because the Gujarat riots of 2002 were any worse than previous riots in the state; but this time when Hindus reacted with fury as they have always done at least as we now know it from 1946 onwards, the state was ruled by the BJP and the coalition government in Delhi was led by the BJP and the BJP was perceived as a Hindu political party.
The same argument was thrown by Gandhi at the Bihar government in 1946. How Gandhi reacted to Morarji Desai’s handling of the Ahmedabad riots in July 1946 and to the Bihar riots that started in August 1947 and continued unabated till March 1948, is the key to understanding why the three Yadavs, the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Home Minister LK Advani, and Hindu political mercenaries in the Congress, blame Narendra Modi for the riots.
Morarji Desai, the then Minister for Revenue and Home in the Government of Bombay, was forced to call in the army and the police to quell the riots. Gandhi reacted sharply to Morarji Desai summoning the army into Ahmedabad and using the police to subdue the rioters. Launching a furious diatribe against Morarji Desai who went to meet Gandhi in Pune before going to Ahmedabad, Gandhi asked Desai to withdraw the military; and in his speech at the prayer meeting the same day, in his typical manner of asking everyone else to die but not choosing to die himself, Gandhi told the people gathered at the meeting that Morarji Desai “must go to meet the flames under the sole protection of God, not that of the police and the military. If need be he must perish in the flames in the attempt to quell them as the late Mr. Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi had done”. (CWMG Vol. 91 pp 228-29)
In the course of the prayer meeting Gandhi also observed,
If you find it risky to withdraw the military immediately let them do policing. They may not carry rifles and if they carry bayonets these should be used sparingly. They have been trained to act like monkeys, under your administration they should cease to be monkeys and become human beings.
There are ways even of fighting. If we must fight, why should we seek the help of the police and the military? The government too should clearly say that the military, whilst it is in India will only be used for the work of sanitation, for cultivating unused land and the like.
Morarji Desai was damned because he called the military; Modi was damned because he did not call the army on time, as alleged (falsely) by his detractors. But one individual mustered the courage to confront Gandhi frontally on Gandhi’s prescription to Morarji Desai for dealing with the Ahmedabad riots.
Your guidance and example can inspire many like me with courage and self-confidence. Once you have shown the way, the local workers will be able to follow it whenever occasion demands it. I feel that unless you set an example in action, your writings and utterances will not be of any use to the ordinary people and even Congressmen, in organizing non-violent protection of society.
Gandhi: I like the suggestion mentioned above. The correspondent has rightly said that under these circumstances, I should act myself whether others join me or not. It will be disgraceful on my part to sit at home and tell others to go and lay down their lives. Such a thing cannot be an indication of non-violence. I have never had the chance to test my non-violence in the face of communal riots. It might be argued that it was my cowardice which prevented me from seeking such a chance. (Panchgani July 25, 1946, CWMG Vol. 91, pp 348-49)
But Gandhi did not go to Ahmedabad in July 1946 and he did not go to Bengal when the Muslim League let loose a reign of terror against the Hindus in response to Jinnah’s call for Direct Action. Just as he fobbed off the correspondent in Ahmedabad who asked Gandhi why he did not set an example in action, Gandhi fobbed off a pointed invitation to go to Bengal and undertake a fast unto death to quell the riots, with the excuse that his inner voice had not issued the command yet. The Mahatma’s inner voice spoke to him only in the last week of October and Gandhi went to Bengal three months after the riots began in August, three months of rape, plunder, loot, force-feeding beef to Hindus and religious conversion at the point of the sword.
In Bengal Gandhi was forced to admit that his ahimsa was not working and despite his prolonged stay in Bengal lasting four months between October 1946 to the beginning of March 1948, and despite walking from village to village with his tales of non-violence, Gandhi could not douse the fires of communal violence. Gandhi therefore turned his attention to Bihar.
Hindus of Bihar reacted spontaneously and violently to the Great Calcutta killings when on a single day over 5000 Hindus were killed, among whom were hundreds of Biharis who had migrated to Calcutta in search of work. The rage of Bihar’s Hindus exploded with unforeseen fury and soon Bihar too was raging in the fire of communal violence.
The Muslim League government in Bengal was furious with Gandhi for walking from one riot-torn village to another while Bihar under Congress rule was extracting revenge for events in Calcutta and other cities and villages of Bengal. The Muslim League wanted Gandhi out of Bengal.
Your letter is hysterical. I would like you to tell me how I can serve the Muslims better by going to Bihar. Whilst I do not endorse your remark that the atrocities committed by the Hindus in Bihar have no parallel in history, I am free to admit that they were in magnitude much greater than in Noakhali. I would urge you as President of the Monghyr District Muslim League to confine yourself to proven facts which, I am sorry to say, you have not done. (Letter to President Monghyr District Muslim League, January 25, 1947, CWMG Vol. 93, page 321)
Congress stalwarts of the time were against Gandhi fishing in the troubled waters of a communally charged Bengal fearing it could provoke the Muslim League government to unleash more violence against the Hindus. They communicated their resentment to GD Birla hoping Birla could make Gandhi see reason. But Gandhi was adamant about proving the success of his non-violence and while he conceded that what he was doing in Bengal (including his sinful experiments in brahmacharya) was not in the name of the Congress, and that he will not associate the Congress in his work, he would not leave Bengal because “he was determined to emerge successful from this ordeal”.
Gandhi assured the Muslim League that he could control the Congress government in Bihar sitting in Bengal and that he did not have to go to Bihar to end the riots. Gandhi unleashed his tried and tested weapon of coercion against Bihar:
And since I claim to have better appreciation than you seem to have shown of what Bihari Hindus should do, I cannot rest till I have done some measure of penance. Predominantly for reasons of health, I had put myself on the lowest diet possible soon after my reaching Calcutta. That diet now continues as a penance after the knowledge of the Bihar tragedy. The low diet will become a fast unto death, if the erring Biharis have not turned over a new leaf. There is no danger of Bihar mistaking my act for anything other than pure penance as a matter of sacred duty. (To Bihar, Sodepur, November 6, 1946, CWMG Vol. 92, page 452)
Proving Gandhi to be terribly wrong about his self-proclaimed control over the Bihar government and as if to prove that Bihar’s Hindus were not going to listen to any argument from any Congress leader to give up their revenge attacks, communal riots in Bihar continued to rage. Finally in a move to placate Bengal’s Muslim League government Gandhi asked Srikrishna Sinha, Prime Minister of Bihar to send him official reports from Bihar on the prevailing situation.
In 1947 Muslims constituted 14% of Bihar’s total population and that was no “very small minority” as Gandhi put it, and his fear that the retaliatory violence by Bihar Hindus against the Muslims of the province would “sour” the Muslims in the rest of India has been Indian polity’s intellectual refrain till today to exert pressure on Hindus and stopping them by use of state force if necessary, from responding effectively to continuing Muslim violence and jihad against Hindus.
Two telegrams from Patna reprove me on my “threatened” fast. “Threatened” is the word used in one of the wires. My proposed fast is not meant to coerce anyone; it is meant to quicken the dead conscience into life. Those who act from fear harm themselves and the cause they profess to serve. Surely, it is as plain as A. B. C. that the action of the Biharis in injuring the very small minority of Muslims in Bihar must postpone the day of India’s independence and ultimately sour Muslims all over India unless Bihar repents her folly of senseless and cowardly violence. Rashtrapati Acharya Kripalani, whom every Bihari knows for his sterling services, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Rajendra Prasad and now Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Shri Jayaprakash Narayan are now in Bihar and expect to show fair Bihar that their terrible ill-treatment of the Muslims is communalism of the worst type and is calculated to defeat the growing nationalism of Bihar. I therefore warn everyone from abusing my contemplated fast which is in no way intended to deflect anyone from what he believes is the course of duty for him. (Statement to the press, Chaumuhani, November 9, 1946, The Hindu 11-11-1946, CWMG, Vol. 93, page 16)
And there is a lesson here for Modi’s admirers and adversaries. In spite of the fact that almost all Congress leaders except Sardar Patel were camping in Bihar to deal with the riots – Rajendra Prasad, Nehru, Govind Vallabh Pant and Rafiq Ahmed Kidwai, not one of them and not Srikrishna Sinha or Patel, not one of them sends any report to Gandhi and they refuse to react to Gandhi’s suggestions and objections. Gandhi’s frustration at being ignored is obvious:
I wrote a letter to you but have not received a reply. Possibly it was lost. It does happen to some of my letters. I have received a copy of the Bihar Provincial Muslim League’s report. You too must have received a copy. I am therefore not sending it to you. It is a terrible thing if even half of what is stated were true. It even mentions that I should ask the Bihar Ministry for a full clarification of the massacre for which they were responsible. And if one has been already issued, I may be sent a copy. I should like to take you even further than that. I read in some newspaper that the Bihar Ministry does not propose to hold any inquiry. I was sorry to note it. I want the ministries of both the provinces to hold an impartial inquiry by a joint committee to probe the incidents in both the provinces. Even if Bengal does not co-operate, it is the Bihar Ministry’s duty to hold such an enquiry. It will be good if you can also let me know the true condition at present. What is the truth in the report that many Muslims have left Bihar and many are still leaving? There is also a complaint that representatives of the Muslim League are not even allowed to visit the Muslim refugee camps set up by the Bihar Government. I am sending a copy of this to Rajendra Babu. (Letter to Srikrishna Sinha, Srirampur, December 21, 1946)
It is bad that the enquiry commission has not yet been appointed. I think that it should be appointed immediately. Many letters of complaint are coming in. Only the commission can answer these letters. (CWMG Vol. 93, page 270)
I was to get a note on Bihar. I have not received it, nor has a single well-informed person from Bihar come to me. It does not matter if someone cannot come but the note must come. What happened about the Commission? (Letter to Srikrishna Sinha, January 13, 1947, CWMG vol. 93, page 275)
It was some gentleman from Bihar who gave me the information. I did not note down his name. Is it not a fact that you, the Governor and the Viceroy are against the appointment of a Commission and that this is sufficient to stop the Chief Minister from appointing one? In spite of all this, I am strongly of opinion that if no commission is appointed, the League’s report will be accepted as true. I alone know what pressure is being put on me. (Letter to Vallabhbhai Patel, January 14, 1947, CWMG Vol. 93, pp 276-77)
To which accusation Sardar Patel replied not very politely:
Who told you I have a hand in the non-appointment of a Commission of Inquiry in Bihar? I do hold the opinion that there is no gain but only harm if the Commission is appointed. If in spite of it the Commission is appointed, how can I prevent it? The Bihar Governor is behind the non-appointment of the Commission. The Viceroy too does not want it. (CWMG Vol. 93, page 369)
In due course the Prime Minister of the Bihar government, Srikrishna Sinha announced a one-man Inquiry Commission of Justice Reuben of the Patna High Court. The promised Commission of Inquiry was never constituted and on October 30, 1947, the Bihar cabinet dropped the idea altogether.
Modi like Sardar Patel in 1947 has thus far stood firm against the onslaught of pressure applied on him by his enemies inside and outside the country. Hindus have always dealt decisively with Islamic terrorism even when jihad had the support of state power as in the case of the Muslim League Government in Bengal. Foreign and domestic political forces arraigned now against Narendra Modi and the RSS like the British government and empire loyalists in 1905 do not want Hindu nationalism to raise its head. While they have no objection to Hindu political mercenaries who can be trusted to implement politics of minority-ism, they will put down with all and every means any move by Hindu nationalists to capture state power.
What the RSS has withstood since 1947 and what Narendra Modi has withstood since 2002 is but a foretaste for what lies in wait for both Modi and the RSS as the country nears the general elections in 2014. It is for Hindu nationalists to revive the political courage and intellectual brilliance of Tilak and Aurobindo and the clear thinking that illuminated Savarkar’s abiding conviction that this ancient civilization is the Hindu nation – the only bhumi for sanatana dharma and the dharmi.
(Concluded)
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This is Part 7 and the concluding part. This series, contrary to initial expectations from a very large section of Modi's admirers was not a hagiographic account of Modi; it was a series to demonstrate why the Congress is anti-Modi and to show the roots of Congress' genetic anti-Hindu mindset.
I had to expose Gandhi's political activism for its obstructionist methods. What alarmed me personally was the quiet backroom negotiations which Gandhi was holding with Viceroys and other top British London government officials. The Champaran and Kheda satyagraha was one, the Gandhi-Irwin negotiations where Gandhi agreed to call off the civil disobedience movement to the utter dismay of Patel and Bose was another. What was however not known in those times was Gandhi making a bogus plea to the Viceroy not asking for Bhagat Singh's release as part of the G-I Pact as the nation wanted, but asking for Bhagat Singh's execution to be commuted to life sentence or at least put off the date of the execution until the pact is signed.
The third backroom deal we know now is the promise to handover all of India including Hindu kingdoms to the Muslim League if the Muslim League cooperated with the Congress for immediate independence.
This Gandhi had to do because the threat of Bose returning to India was very real. We may never know what transpired behind the scenes but even after Japan's defeat and the subsequent defeat of the INA, the threat of Bose returning to India and the people of India across provinces mobilising themselves behind Bose, like Gokhale feared the people would rally behind Tilak if he came back to india and into the INC - its all a pattern.
Another backroom deal/condition accepted by Gandhi with the Briitish for immediate independence was that after Gandhi handed over the whole Hindu nation to the Muslim league, the Muslim league should permit the British army to stay on, on Indian soil and allow the British army and its allied armies to operate from indian soil against Japan and the INA!
Gandhi was so afraid of Bose taking obver the country that he was prepared to hand over the entire nation to the Muslim league to keep out Bose. All of us must beware of such backroom deals by our leaders. I have also made this point that Modi has withstood the international propaganda machinery so far. But inexplicable - why allow America into Gujarat to build 6 nuclear reactors knowing America's aasuric determination to kill, remove, or subjugate by force any country, any leader who will not submit to its will.
Hindu thinkers must watch domestic and international politics carefully and watch the unfolding of geo-politcs as manipulated by America if we have the Hindu nation's well being at heart. The culture of silence imposed by gandhi on the INC led to vivisection and Nehru, Nehruvian secularism and the ascendance of the Abrahamic cults once again in this country. This series was about sounding a warning. If any of you has missed any part in the seven part series pl visit www.vigilonline.com or www.vijayvaani.com to catch up. I would truly appreciate your opinion which you may write to me at radharajan7@gmail.com. regards, RR
I had to expose Gandhi's political activism for its obstructionist methods. What alarmed me personally was the quiet backroom negotiations which Gandhi was holding with Viceroys and other top British London government officials. The Champaran and Kheda satyagraha was one, the Gandhi-Irwin negotiations where Gandhi agreed to call off the civil disobedience movement to the utter dismay of Patel and Bose was another. What was however not known in those times was Gandhi making a bogus plea to the Viceroy not asking for Bhagat Singh's release as part of the G-I Pact as the nation wanted, but asking for Bhagat Singh's execution to be commuted to life sentence or at least put off the date of the execution until the pact is signed.
The third backroom deal we know now is the promise to handover all of India including Hindu kingdoms to the Muslim League if the Muslim League cooperated with the Congress for immediate independence.
This Gandhi had to do because the threat of Bose returning to India was very real. We may never know what transpired behind the scenes but even after Japan's defeat and the subsequent defeat of the INA, the threat of Bose returning to India and the people of India across provinces mobilising themselves behind Bose, like Gokhale feared the people would rally behind Tilak if he came back to india and into the INC - its all a pattern.
Another backroom deal/condition accepted by Gandhi with the Briitish for immediate independence was that after Gandhi handed over the whole Hindu nation to the Muslim league, the Muslim league should permit the British army to stay on, on Indian soil and allow the British army and its allied armies to operate from indian soil against Japan and the INA!
Gandhi was so afraid of Bose taking obver the country that he was prepared to hand over the entire nation to the Muslim league to keep out Bose. All of us must beware of such backroom deals by our leaders. I have also made this point that Modi has withstood the international propaganda machinery so far. But inexplicable - why allow America into Gujarat to build 6 nuclear reactors knowing America's aasuric determination to kill, remove, or subjugate by force any country, any leader who will not submit to its will.
Hindu thinkers must watch domestic and international politics carefully and watch the unfolding of geo-politcs as manipulated by America if we have the Hindu nation's well being at heart. The culture of silence imposed by gandhi on the INC led to vivisection and Nehru, Nehruvian secularism and the ascendance of the Abrahamic cults once again in this country. This series was about sounding a warning. If any of you has missed any part in the seven part series pl visit www.vigilonline.com or www.vijayvaani.com to catch up. I would truly appreciate your opinion which you may write to me at radharajan7@gmail.com. regards, RR
Radha Rajan
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Campaign against Modi,RSS,BJP and Hindus at large is part of the anti Hindu project launched since last 2000 years.If there were no 2002 riots, they would have invented some thing else to stop Modi,RSS,Hindus.[Like on the day Ahmedabad court verdict came against Zakia Jafferi, central government decided to order probe on "snoop gate]
You can't blame enemies of Hindus to act otherwise.This is time for Hindus to unite and install Modi as PM as a first step in the direction of Hindu resurgence..Hindus are at the cusp of history.they need to seize it before it punishes them - again.
You can't blame enemies of Hindus to act otherwise.This is time for Hindus to unite and install Modi as PM as a first step in the direction of Hindu resurgence..Hindus are at the cusp of history.they need to seize it before it punishes them - again.
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I think a word of caution is needed too. A Hindu nationalist coming to power in 1947 could mean a possibility of Hindu rajya - now with an anti-Hindu and anti native-culture constitution around, much less systemic change can be expected with a Hindu nationalist coming to power. People failed to set proper expectations during 1998-2004 and thought as though some Maratha or Vijayanagara regime was back. For that to happen, Hindus must realize their responsibility as the electorate and stop expecting magic from the leadership. Definitely, a Vajpayee did thousand times better than a cong leader. Definitely, a Modi would to ten thousand times better than a cong leader. That is nevertheless within the ambit of the prevalent public discourse and law.
And the commie calumnists must answer how insecure a common Muslim or xtian was under Maratha or Vijayanagara empire - it was the genocidal abrahamists who were threatened, not the common peace loving abrahamist.
And the commie calumnists must answer how insecure a common Muslim or xtian was under Maratha or Vijayanagara empire - it was the genocidal abrahamists who were threatened, not the common peace loving abrahamist.
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@Smt Radha Rajan
Hindu society owes immense gratitude to you for unmasking the alleged Mahatma who was indeed a true 'mahapapi' or great sinner. The true mahatma was Nathuram Vinayak Godse who sacrificed his life to executive this great sinner to prevent him from doing more damaged to Hindu society. Let us hope a day will come when every "MG Road" in every town in India is renamed as "NV Godse Road" as a tribute to this brave son of Mother India.
Hindu society owes immense gratitude to you for unmasking the alleged Mahatma who was indeed a true 'mahapapi' or great sinner. The true mahatma was Nathuram Vinayak Godse who sacrificed his life to executive this great sinner to prevent him from doing more damaged to Hindu society. Let us hope a day will come when every "MG Road" in every town in India is renamed as "NV Godse Road" as a tribute to this brave son of Mother India.
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This series from Radhaji is an eye-opener! It's a great service to our nation and we should be grateful for it.Hope real Hindus will never forget this and remain alert to the machinations of the anti-Hindu and the anti-Indian forces. Also have the fond hope that the rootless and the renegade 'Hindus' will start thinking deeply, at least for the sake of their ancestors, and muster up the courage to throw the colonial mill-stone of intellectual servitude and dishonesty off their necks! Bharat Mataki Jai!
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