The passive resistors betrayed the motherland's best interests and sold the country to the British. And to witness that they have even today so many devotees who are essentially cowards to the core like their perfidious predecessors in the national political arena shocks me to my very marrow. These champions of non-violence, proponents of passive resistance, advocates of Gandhian methods should hang their heads in shame and reflect afresh on the lives of the revolutionaries who sacrificed their all to truly liberate the motherland.
And what did Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Prasad, Pant, Pattabhi, Maulana Azad and the like do in alliance with Mountbatten and that worst betrayer of the motherland since Mir Jaffar in the form of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his Muslim League? They partitioned the motherland, dismembered her, amputated her limbs so that they could reap the rich rewards of independence.
I include Gandhi in this list because, despite pious protestations to the contrary, open declarations that Partition of the motherland would have to be performed over his dead body, he allowed himself to be persuaded to accede to this dreadful dissection of the nation by Nehru, forgetting all his earlier resolve to resist to death such an act of murder of one's mother. Fast he did thereafter to attempt to stop communal carnage and help secure the promised funds for Pakistan from the Bank of England, emotionally blackmailing Patel into submission at a time when India was at war with Pakistan and those very funds would be used by the enemy to subvert our sovereignty in Kashmir.
On one side were the revolutionaries of hallowed memory and on the other the betrayers who sold the motherland, and to witness that the latter yet have so many adherents ! Stunning ! Are we a race of cowards truly as Swami Vivekananda had so potently painted it in so many words to his Madrasi disciple, Alasinga Perumal ?
Written by Sugata Bose
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