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V SUNDARAM
'Hindus of India unite! You have nothing to lose but your self-chosen chains.'
By a historic declaration that Muslims of India - and particularly Muslims only - will have a knock-down priority in the vital matter of charge on scarce Indian national resources taken as a whole, Dr. Manmohan Singh has eminently qualified himself to be immediately proposed by President Bush and Tony Blair as the fittest candidate for the post of Prime Minister of Iraq in order to restore normalcy in that war-ravaged country. I am not invoking the classic instance of Iraq without valid reasons. Iraq has been the victim of unprovoked and unabashed Anglo-American imperialism. Like Herr Hitler launching a war against countries like Austria, Poland, France, Belgium, England, Russia, etc. during the II World War, President Bush and Blair - very much like Hitler and Mussolini - combined to attack Iraq without any provocation in 2003 giving the viciously imaginary reason of Iraq being in possession of 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'. After deploying the combined military might of their countries against a small country like Iraq, Bush and Blair could find nothing in Iraq excepting their own 'original weapons of mass destruction' which they had transported to Iraq for the purposes of a barbarous invasion running counter to all known principles of international law. After three years of Anglo-American misrule, Iraq is in a state of chaos, turmoil and confusion today. Criminal gangsters have taken over the land under the supreme benediction of Bush and Blair watching the situation with impotent despair.
In this terribly bad and sad situation, the only man who can restore normalcy there seems to be Dr. Manmohan Singh - the newly emerging patron-saint of Pan Islamism- acting as Iraq Prime Minister, with Sonia Gandhi as President and a Cabinet consisting of Islam-embracing men like Arjun Singh, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan, Karunanidhi and a few other stalwarts of global fame in the Islamic world. All of them seem to be politically pretending to have a better understanding of the mysteries of the Muslim psyche than even a Sigmund Freud - the father of modern psycho analysis.
The non-descript, non-performing, surrogate, Islam-embracing, Christianity-coveting and Hindu hating and artificially nominated, if not imposed, Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh has declared: 'Minorities, particularly Muslims, must have the first claim on resources.' L K Advani, who is a duly elected Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, has rightly thundered: 'What is this if not rank communalism? The statement the Prime Minister has made last Saturday is in violation of the spirit of the Constitution. It has shocked millions in the country. I demand that it be withdrawn. I expected the Prime Minister to say that those living below poverty line, particularly the dalits, tribals and the backward, shall have the first claim on the country's resources.'
In my view the Prime Minister's most inglorious statement in our recent history tantamounts to outraging the modesty of Mother India just for the sake of hit and run and shit and run electoral gains through the treacherous quick-sands of Muslim vote-bank politics in the ensuing Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and the Lok Sabha elections in 2009.
Dr.Manmohan Singh's statement steeped in self-chosen infamy reminds me of the equally infamous Balfour Declaration of 1917. On 2 November, 1917, the British Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, wrote to Jewish leader Lord Rothshild, to assure him that his government supported the ideal of providing a homeland for the Jews. The British hoped thereby to win more Jewish support for the Allies in the I World War. The 'Balfour Declaration' became the basis for international support for the founding of the modern State of Israel.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 led to the artificial creation of the State of Israel by the Allied Powers after the II World War in the Middle East with disastrous consequences for the Arabs in Palestine. I am not for a moment suggesting that Jews were not entitled to their legitimate living geographical space. The Allied Powers failed to find such a living place for the beleaguered and stranded Jews after the II World War. The primordial seeds of Arab-Israeli conflict were sown in 1917 by the Balfour Declaration.
Like Lord Balfour in 1917, Mohammed Ali Jinnah sowed the seeds of Pakistan through his Fourteen Points at a meeting of the Council of the All India Muslim League on 28 March, 1929. He proposed them as part of a constitutional reform plan to safeguard the rights of Muslims in a self-governing India. He made it clear that the form of the future constitution should be Federal with the residuary powers vested in the provinces. Then came the Two Nation theory of Jinnah which led to the birth of Pakistan and partition of India on religious lines on 15 August, 1947.
After independence, the Congress Party under the leadership of Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and now Sonia Gandhi has outdone the blatantly communal command performance of Jinnah by trying to create newer and newer Pakistans by means of fair or foul in different parts of North-Eastern India. Dr.Manmohan Singh's recent declaration has laid a solid foundation for the creation of more and more Pakistans in interminable succession in the not very distant future. Mir Jaffar stabbed the Nawab of Bengal in 1757 enabling Robert Clive to win the Battle of Plassey. Justice Rajindar Sachar has become the Mir Jaffar of today by giving a mischievous report for creating a government for the Muslims, of the Muslims and by the crypto-Muslims.
Dr.Manmohan Singh acting under the dictatorial anti-Hindu orders of Sonia Gandhi has made an unqualified declaration on behalf of the Muslims hoping that he and his Congress Party would be able to win the Islamic hearts of the Muslims in the coming elections. Mahatma Gandhi, quite unlike Dr.Manmohan Singh and Sonia, who was genuine in his love for the Muslims and who was not interested in the trappings of any high public office, failed magnificently to win the hearts of the Muslims of India. History tells us that even when Mahatma Gandhi was heading the Khilafat movement in 1922 upon the request of Ali Brothers, Mohammed Ali stabbed Mahatma Gandhi in the back by declaring: 'Mahatma Gandhi is only a Kafir. Even a degenerate and immoral Muslim will command greater respect and affection from me than the saintly Mahatma. I get this sanction from my religion and the Koran.'
Dr. Manmohan Singh is vainglorious in his partisan political belief that the Muslims of India would be infatuated with him for his recent declaration in their favour.
In his famous book Pakistan or the Partition of India?, Dr Ambedkar analysed and criticised the many sinister views and designs of the advocates of Pakistan in 1944. It should not be forgotten that until 1944, not many Muslims of what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh were with the Muslim League. It was the Muslims of what is now India that were demanding the partition of India and the creation of an Islamic State. In the elections to the Central Legislative Assembly and to the Provinces in 1946, there were separate electorates for Muslims. The Congress under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and Maulana Azad fought the elections promising that India would not be divided. The Muslim League under Jinnah fought the elections demanding and promising that India would be divided and Pakistan created. The savagely brutal 'Islamic' fact is that only 1.3 per cent of the Muslims voted for the Nationalist Muslim candidates of the Congress for the Central Legislative Assembly and only 4.67 per cent voted for Congress Muslims for the Provincial Legislatures. IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS THE MUSLIMS OF WHAT IS NOW INDIA THAT ASSERTED THAT THEY WERE NOT PART OF THE INDIAN NATION; THEY WERE A SEPARATE NATION BECAUSE THEY WERE MUSLIMS AND PAKISTAN SHOULD BE CARVED OUT AS A MUSLIM STATE. They launched the Direct Action; that is, Civil War for creation of Pakistan on 16 August, 1946. A 'compassionate' and 'noble' man called H S Suhrawardy was the Muslim League Chief Minister of Bengal then. With Islamic 'compassion' and feelings of 'global brotherhood,' he declared holiday for the police for two days and sponsored a pogram of massacre of innocent Hindus in Calcutta which triggered supportive and retaliatory killings in many parts of Bengal and Bihar. This glorious record of Suhrawardy to demoralise the Hindus of India, has been put to shame by the impolitic declaration of Dr.Manmohan Singh today.
Mahatma Gandhi surrendered to the Ali Brothers during the days of Khilafat Movement in the early 1920s and to Jinnah in 1947. Jawaharlal Nehru surrendered to the Muslim marauders from Pakistan in Kashmir in 1949. He again surrendered to Liaquat Ali Khan in 1950 when he concluded an anti-Hindu agreement with him. Indira Gandhi surrendered to Bhutto when she handed over 93,000 Pakistan Prisoners of War to Pakistan in 1972. In the strategic arena of pro-Muslim and anti-Hindu brand of Congress Politics, all of them have been swept away and put into oblivion in one stroke by the recent announcement of Dr. Manmohan Singh. When a totally selfless missionary like Mahatma Gandhi failed in his attempt to woo the Muslims, a known mercenary of Sonia Gandhi like Dr. Manmohan Singh is likely to do no better.
This tale is not the end; not even the beginning of the end. It is only an end of the beginning.
(To be continued...)
(The writer is a retired IAS officer)
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