“In every age it has been the tyrant, the
oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism,
or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People."
-
Eugene
Victor Debs
Hi,
Everyone! While the Congress Working Committee was busy getting its Pakistan
resolution passed, what was Gandhi saying?
“‘I consider,’
Gandhi declared in Harijan of May 24,
1942, ‘the vivisection of India to be a sin.’
In Harijan of
May 31, 1942, he said: “No third party should decide our fate. It should be
reason or the sword.” And he had already said that “if I can carry the Congress
with me, I would not put the Muslims to the trouble of using force.”
One
has already seen how indeed the Mahatma of the Indians carried—by hook or by
crook—the Congress with him!! Check out below what he had written to Jinnah on
the very day he launched the Quit India Movement!
“On August 8,
1942, he had written to Jinnah and to a Muslim businessman in Bombay that he
had no objection to Britain handing over power to the Muslim League subject to
certain provisos.”[1]
In
addition, his mouthpiece, Rajagopalachari, was encouraging the idea of
accepting Pakistan among the people.
“The fact was
that Rajagopalachari was doing his utmost by his propaganda to enable the Muslim
League to translate Gandhi’s proposition into action.”[2]
As
it wasn’t enough that the Pakistan scheme was being heavily promoted by the
Congress, their “Quit India” challenge to the British was not at all what it
appeared on the surface is either!
Britain
must “Quit India” but leave behind her army . . . ! Can one
call that “independence”?
“But
this was a strange solution. It implied that the civil Government would be in
the hands of Indians, and there would be some form of British military rule
over India, a remedy worse than the disease,” writes Keer in his biography of
Gandhi (page 704,) adding:
“It was given to
Rajgopalachari again to expose the fallacy in Gandhi’s stand. In a letter to
Gandhi Rajagopalachari said: ‘Your proposal that while the civil power may be
withdrawn the British and Allied forces may continue in India in anticipation
of a treaty with a problematical
provisional Indian Government will only lead to the exercise of all Government
functions by military forces. This will happen if only for their own safety and
effective functioning. They are further likely to be urged towards this step by
local chieftains and suffering people. This would be the reinstallation of the
British Government in the worst form.’”[3]
Today,
almost everywhere, Quit India Movement is touted as a wonderful call by Gandhi
for the freedom of India.
·
Can promoting the Pakistan scheme and
keeping British military rule be an agenda of any true call of freedom for
India?
No.
No.
Why
then is the Truth forced to wear this mask?
Have
people lost the ability to look beyond the hollow words of propaganda?
Anurupa
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