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

Do not allow Non-Hindus in Hindu Mahasabha The following telegram was sent to Dr. Shyamaprasad Mukherjee by Veer Savarkar on 27 July, 1947 after partition: “In as much as the proposal of throwing open full or associated membership of Hindu Mahasabha to nationalist non-Hindus has been publicly discussed in press, I must express my view in time against it. If non-Hindus are admitted as members in the Hindu Mahasabha, whether on political or economical point, it is bound to be detrimental to the Hindu solidarity because every political question is in India, either religious or cultural and every religious and cultural question is political. Shuddhi, though religious, is political and Pakistan, though camouflaged as political, is religious. The Hindu Mahasabha is a mandir for Hindu worship where Hindus alone can go to worship their nationalist Shiv. Let us not turn that mandir into a masjid or bazar. By such an error, the Hindus will lose their self by those very steps by which the Congress degenerated into a chaos. We may join any nationalist association on a separate platform, where we Hindus as an undivided entity join hands in special matters like the election campaigns, so far as it is not detrimental to Hindu interests, with our non-Hindu nationalists. But the Hindus must have an organisation of their own, where they can think, plan, consolidate and act as Hindus without check, from any non-Hindu, who enters by right. Otherwise, one day, a Moslem may come to preside over the Hindu Mahasabha too. As long as there are purely Muslim, Christian and Parsee bodies in India, so long at least, the Hindus must have an exclusive organisation of their own. On this spirit, the Hindu Mahasabha was found and rose to be the center of Hindu solidarity and power. Let us not undo this monumental work for the vicious temptation of a few seats of offices. Let us leave to the next generation, true ambition of rendering the Hindu Mahasabha itself, the National Parliament of Hindusthan.” — V. D. Savarkar