भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

leader like Gandhiji, who only the other day, asserted that vivisection was a sin and is today supporting Rajaji’s Pakistani proposals. Only those Congressites and some other leaders among the Hindus, who had grown in the habit of accepting any Gandhist ‘mumbo-jumbo’ as a gospel truth, obeyed those orders and tried their best to stand tongue-tied. Not only that, but they wanted to hush-hush even the Hindu Sanghatanists and other far- sighted politicians, who refused to be duped by that flimsy political trick and refused to acquiesce in such a guilty silence. Whirlwind of protest The whirlwind of protest raised by the indignant people, the forest of black flags and picketings, through which that triumphal Pakistani train had to pass crestfallen from Poona to Panchagani, Panchagani to Wardha and Wardha to Bombay, the trenchant statements issued by some of our foremost leaders in the country condemning the treacherous proposal, those thousands of meetings and signed protests wherein millions of Indian citizens led by the Hindu Sanghatanists pledged themselves to stand by the integrity of their Motherland and to resist the Pakistani proposals, defeated the design of the Gandhist group to lull the whole country into a false sense of security, and by demonstrating the fact that there was a country-wide challenge thrown to them, made it impossible for Gandhiji and others of his persuasions to claim the leadership of the whole country in general and of the Hindus in particular. It was to organise this whirlwind of protest against these sinful designs to break up the integrity of Hindusthan, as a nation and a state, and to consolidate all those leaders and citizens who had thus protested publicly against the Pakistani proposal that the Akhand Hindusthan Leaders’ Conference was convened to meet at Delhi on October 7 and 8. It was supported by hundreds of prominent leaders from all parts of India including the accredited representatives of the Sanghatanists, Sikhs, Arya Samajists and other Hindu Sanghatanist organisations, as well as by several leaders of note in their personal capacity. This conference had, from its very inception, almost nothing to do, to the beginning or ending of the Gandhi- Jinnah talks. It is an independent effort to consolidate those who stand by the integrity of India into a common front. Many of those Congressites and others who had secret sympathy with Gandhiji’s unholy mission either through conviction or want of foresight, tried their best to frustrate the efforts of holding such an Akhand Hindusthan Leaders’ Conference.