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are some other opposers who go even so far as say that it was
because of the cry of Hindu Rashtra that Muslim League also raised
the counter cry of Muslim Rashtra, which ultimately let to the
Partition. The sheer perversity of this argument is so transparent
that even a casual perusal of the developments of that period tells
us that the very opposite is true. It was the protagonists of Hindu
Rashtra like Savarkar and RSS who bitterly opposed the Partition
till the very last. On the other hand, it was the Congress, the
communists who continuously fed the fires of Muslim separatism which
finally resulted in partition.
There is yet one another important
fact. No protagonist of Hindu Rashtra ever said that Hindu would
receive preferential treatment and Muslims would be reduced to
second grade citizen in free Bharat. They all clearly affirmed that
Bharat would be ruled under the democratic system of One man,
one vote irrespective of one's faith. So, there was no question
of any discrimination involved in the concept of Hindu Rashtra
against Muslims that warranted separate protection for them as
against the Hindus.
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