Anti-Muslim sentiment has been the core of RSS ideology.
M.S. Golwalkar, the second Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, wrote of Indian Muslims
in his book Bunch of Thoughts, which,
incidentally, has mysteriously disappeared from the public domain. ‘It would be
suicidal to delude ourselves that they have turned patriots overnight after the
creation of Pakistan. On the contrary, the Muslim menace has increased
hundredfold by the creation of Pakistan which has become a springboard for all
their future aggressive designs on our country.’
Patel was strongly opposed to a ‘Hindu Rashtra’, which the
RSS has been propagating since its inception in 1925. In February 1949, Patel
had said, ‘Hindu Raj is a mad idea, it will kill the soul of India.’
…Patel as home minister was instrumental in banning the
RSS…he obliquely blamed the RSS for the assassination of Gandhiji. In his
letter dated 11 September 1948 to Golwalkar, Patel wrote, ‘All the speeches
were full of communal venom …and it was because of this poison that the country
had to suffer the death of Gandhiji …RSS members celebrated Gandhiji’s death
and distributed sweets.’ Sardar Patel had written a similar letter on 18 July
1948 to Shyama Prasad Mukerjee who later founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
Patel wrote, ‘Due to the activities of the RSS an atmosphere was created in
which such a barbaric act could be executed.’ Patel pressurized the RSS to
profess loyalty to the Indian Constitution, salute the Indian tricolor, write
their own constitution, abjure violence, limit their activities to the cultural
sphere and never indulge in politics. Only when the RSS accepted these
conditions was the ban lifted.
George Orwell had this to say about politics and
politicians: ‘All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of
lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.’
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