Dt: 10/10/22
Sar Sangh Sanchalak Mohan Bhagawatji’s Outreach to Muslims
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
The Sangh Chief deserves our admiration and thanks for very graciously and boldly reaching out to some Muslim intellectuals with a view to bring about reconciliation between Muslims and Hindus and thereby bring about Hindu Muslim unity which has been a mirage after which so many India’s Mahatmas tried to reach. This outreach attempt has been dismissed by Sri Asaduddin Owaisi whose All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslameen (AIMIM) is the successor to the MIM of Nizam’s Hyderabad state. The MIM founded in the year 1928 ( converted into All India MIM in 1958) became most Islamist and militant under the leadership of Kasim Razvi in the period 1946-48 . Kasim Razvi converted the MIM through its staunch followers into a fanatically Islamist fascist organization which wanted to realize the substance of the 1938 amendment to its constitution in:
“The person and the throne of the king of this country, Hyderabad are emanations of the political sovereignty and social supremacy of their community and shall be maintained forever”.
2. Kasim Razvi raised about 300,000 militant Muslims known as Razakars ( volanteers) to realize the aspiration of flying the Ashaf jhahi flags on the Redfort of Delhi . Here are some Kasim Razvi’s fulminations and rants in the 1946 – Sept 1948 period.
· After the rally at the end of the “Weapons Weak” on 31-03-1948 was over, Razvi ranted: Hyderabad is an Islamic State. the Indian Union is trying to wipe out this Muslim rule from the Deccan. Remember that there are four-and-a-half crores of Muslims in the Dominion, looking to us to raise the banner of this Islamic State...
· On another occasion Kasim Rajvi roared, “A Hindu who is a kafir, a worshipper of stone and monkey (laughter), who drinks cow’s urine and eats cow dung in the name of religion (renewed laughter) , and who is a barbarian, in every sense of the word, wants to rule us! What an ambition and what a day-dream!...”
· On May 3, 1948, he roared, “Muslims have always created a new geography for themselves . very soon the boundaries of Hyderabad will expand for beyond Delhi, and the Asafia Flag will fly over Delhi. Yes, I am seeing the Nizam (Asafe-Sabia) marching towards Delhi”.) ( Sri K Chandrasekhara Rao ha snow the same ambition to capture power of the Indian Union government in Delhi)
· On June 10, 1948 he said, “Following the example of Muslims of early days they should not remain content with the small piece of Pakistan ... . We are re-writing the map of India by bringing together a union of Jumna and Musi ( the river which flows through by Hyderabad). We are the grandsons of Mahmood Ghaznavi and the sons of Babar (were they Indians or foreigners). When determined, we shall fly the Asaf Jahi flag on the Red Fort”.
· In another speech on June 12, raved, “ My Hindu brethren, the Muslims have ruled over you (Hindus ) for 900 years; therefore, I have sympathy with you. If I had wished, I could have exterminated you. ( A Muslim leader of Hyderabad declared in 2014 that if the Indian Army did not intervene for 15 mnts, his men could wipe out all Hindus...is this not inspired by Razvi).”
3. Hindu -Muslim unity became the mission of Mahatma Mohandas (Karamchand) Gandhi . In Sept 1944 after his release from prison Mahatma Mohandas walked to Muslim League’s supremo Md Ali Jinnah’s mansion in Malbar Hill of Mumbai on 17 occasions in the month . He humiliated himself inorder to persuade and convince Quaid -e- Azam that partition of India to create Pakistan was wrong and should not be pursued by Md. Aali Jinnah . Jinnah Sahib dismissed Gandhi once even asking whom he was representing to which Gandhiji had answered that he did not represent the Congress or any other organization but as a humble Indian citizen he was trying to prevent the partition of the common mother land.
4. After partition, independent India in the fond hope to change the mindset of the Muslims living in India post-1947 Aug (who had overwhelmingly voted for the partition and Pakistan demanding Muslim League in the 1946 general elections and even staged deadly riots (Direct Action, 16 Aug 1946 and thereafter) that they should integrate with the rest of India citizens and foster and promote and strengthen a common Indian nation hood, in Sept 1961 Prime Minister Nehru created the National Integration Council (NIC) to address communalism , casteism, regionalism and linguism . It had 147 members including Chief Ministers and some eminent intellectuals . The unfortunate fact is that the much sought - after Hindu- Muslim unity is still proving illusive and is in fact becoming more and more divisive, with some militant Muslim organisations taking to terrorism, inspired by some Mullahs and other religious clerics through fiery speeches, instilling the spirit of us as believers and others as kafirs to be converted or exterminated. A number of Muslim parties have come up in different parts of the country extending from Kerala (IUML, PFI, SDP…) to Assam (AIUDF) each one becoming more stridently separatist and Islamist, picking up issues like hijab and citizenship amendment act as triggers. (865 words)
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