Lsharathkumar

“His attention was drawn to Pandit Nehru’s statement regarding the Muslim influx in Assam that migrations are inevitable since nature hates vacuum. Savarkar retorted that Pandit Nehru was neither a philosopher nor a scientist and did not know that nature also abhors poisonous gases!”
― Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966

“Savarkar took on Nehru’s repeated attacks on the Hindu Sangathanist leadership. Reacting to one of Nehru’s assertion that any attempt by Hindu Sangathanist leaders to establish a Hindu Rashtra in India would meet the same fate that Hitler and Mussolini met in Europe, Savarkar denounced his threats through a statement on 22 October 1947. As if the mere demand for a Hindu Raj constitutes a danger to his Government so much more imminent, impending, incalculably disastrous as to call for his immediate attention than the already established Moslem Raj in Pakistan where fanatical atrocities, arson, bloodshed and butchery have been the order of the day . . . Pusillanimous enough to tolerate these diabolical actions and threats on the part of the Moslems against his ‘Indian Union’ Pandit Nehru and his pseudo-nationalistic section in the Congress are delivering mock heroics against the Hindus and swearing that they will fight tooth and nail against those who demand a Hindu Raj.”
― Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966

“Savarkar maintained that while he agreed with the ‘Quit India’ slogan if it implied independence in the truest sense, but he found its interpretation by Gandhi as being ‘wholly inadequate and unsatisfactory”
― Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966

“The case of the Communists of India was a curious one. The secret correspondences exchanged between P.C. Joshi, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and Sir Reginald Maxwell, the home member of the Government of India, make it clear that they ‘acted as stooges and spies of the British Government, and helped them against their own countrymen fighting for freedom’.”
― Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966