Oppose the united front of the Christian, the Congress and the Muslim League The following statement had been issued to the press by Swatantrya Veer V. D. Savarkar on 6-7-1959: “I exhort the Hindu Sanghatanists in Kerala to render all possible support to the Communist Government led by Shri E. M. S. Nambudripad in their struggle, which they are bravely carrying against the united front of Christian, the Congress and the Muslim League, all of whom are sworn enemies of Hindu cause. “The Hindu Sanghatanists cannot forget the religious and political persecution to which the Congress Government led by the Christians had subjected them and from which they got liberated by the advent of the present Communist Government alone. “Even when and if elections come, specially on the issue of the Education Bill, the Hindu Sanghatanists should vote, in their own interest, for the Communist candidate as long as there is no Hindusabhaite candidate, just as the Hindu Sanghatanists are doing in Maharashtra on the issue of United Maharashtra. “I also exhort the Communist Government never to resign under the pressure even of the central government to intervene and to take over the administration or never to compromise especially on the leading issue of Education Bill.” — V. D. Savarkar ❑

On Immediate Problems To Shri N. C. Chatterji, Bar-at-Law Dear Mahashaya, Though I have since long been confined to sick-bed due to age debility and protracted illness and had consequently been forced to retire from all public activities, still I feel it my duty to congratulate you publicly on your thumping electoral success, defeating the rival Congress candidate for the Lok Sabha. I strongly hope that now at any rate, our Bengali Hindus and Hindudom in general, will find an able and indomitable advocate in you to defend the Hindu cause in the Lok Sabha. Three demands above all and immediately must be emphasised. First, all Hindus in East Bengal should be allowed to come over to Western Bengal and at least an equal number of Moslems from West Bengal should be sent to Eastern Bengal, if necessary, per force. Second, for every aggressive step taken by Pakistan, whether military or otherwise must be met by prompt reprisals, military or otherwise by the Hindusthan Government kind for kind, measure for measure. Third, not an inch of our land should be surrendered to Pakistan without the consent of the Hindu Public either on the Eastern frontier or the Western. Bombay, Yours Sincerely, 28th December 1947 V. D. Savarkar

Co-operation with Other Parties

It is imperative that in the interest of Hindudom, it is absolutely necessary that there should be an organisation manned by Hindus only to represent Hindudom as a whole and to protect the interests political, social, cultural, economical, etc., of the Hindu people as a whole. It was with this particular mission that the Hindu Mahasabha was started by such eminent patriots like Lala Lajapat Rai, Madan Mohan Malviya and others and led by Dr. Moonje, Bhai Paramanandji and other great champions of the Hindu cause. Ever since its start, the Hindu Mahasabha has been recognised by other political organisations and even by the British Government also as the foremost, if not the only, political representative of Hindudom. Consequently, any question of a merger or a compromise for a common front for elections or any other object, which demands first of all the liquidation of the Hindu Mahasabha as a political body representing Hindudom and seeks to reduce it to a social and cultural organisation only, cannot but prove most detrimental to the Hindu cause and should never be countenanced at all. Inasmuch as the proposals made recently for such a compromise to one and all seek to deprive the Hindu Mahasabha of this, its main mission of representing and defending the political interests of the Hindus and inasmuch as seek to compel it to merge as a Hindu political body into any old or new organisations, which are open to non-Hindus as well, the acceptance of any such proposal cannot but constitute the betrayal of the two most fundamental bedrocks, on which the Hindu Mahasabha was founded and has been solidly and devotedly taking its stand, namely its mission of representing Hindudom alone and being manned by Hindus alone. Consequently, none of these proposals or any new one of the same nature should ever be even entertained, much less accepted. Nevertheless, a common front for elections or for any issues commonly accepted can be formed with the Hindutwanishtha bodies in particular, and with any political body in general, if that co-operation with those bodies does, in no way, affect the existence and freedom of the Hindu Mahasabha as a Hindu organisation representing Hindudom politically and in all other spheres of national life. In short, co-operation and no amalgamation or merger is the formula that should guide all activities of the Hindu Mahasabha. □□□

Notes [←1] Sakharam Gorhe—he was one of those accused persons in the Nasik revolutionary conspiracy trial who stated in the High Court to have been subjected to police tortures and morpolurs starvatonary to wring out confessions from them so as to implicate other persons as well. The High Court held that the story was an exaggeration and partly a fabrication! History in the long end may record who was right and spoke the truth. All that can be said now is that Sakharam did not implicate anyone else, was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment and died while in a jail, a martyr’s death.

[←2] This petition expressing the political views of the revolutionaries in general and Mr. V. D. Sawarkar in particular was written to the Government chiefly with the intention of pressing no sooner than the passage of the Reforms through the Parliament. For, Mr. Savarkar had several reasons to believe that the Government was then anxious to know what effect the bill would have on the revolutionist attitude. He was several times approached by the authorities there and invited to express his views. He was convinced that the Reforms were chiefly addressed to the revolutionists.