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the 1945-46 General Elections also, even while assuring the Hindu
voter of its resolve to maintain nation's unity at all costs,
Congress had declared in the same resolution its commitment to the
principle of self determination. It was the same mentality that made
Pt. Nehru accept the mischievous for plebiscite to decide the future
of Kashmir.
If the principle of one single common
motherland and one common culture binding all the people of Bharat
into one single unbreakable nationhood which is what Hindu Rashtra
means - had been shared by Congress as a matter of conviction, then
the Congress would never have accepted to partitioning the country.
Then remains the question of the so
called fears of Muslims and Christians in the event of Hindu Rashtra
coming into its own. Would not the minorities be suppressed by the
majority Hindus? As such, should not the minorities be afforded
special rights by way of protection against the majority domination?
This argument should stand automatically demolished when we remember
that it was precisely this argument that led to the partition of the
country. It was the British who planted the vicious seed of majority
and minority complex in the body politic of our country and
also went ahead with affording special rights and privileges to the
Muslims with the specious argument of protecting their interests
from the domination of majority. The Congress fell into the trap and
started competing with the British in according greater and still
greater rights to the Muslims finally acceding to Partition as well.
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