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| Why Hindu Rashtra? |
WHY HINDU RASHTRA ? |
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The Goal, the CallIn order to ensure the all-sided development of the nation, it is essential that all its nationals should bend their energies towards that goal in a single-minded endeavour. If any group considers itself a separate nation, it will only strike at the root of our emotional integration. It also sows the poisonous seed of two nation theory whose bitter fruit we have already tasted in the form of the tragic Partition and consequential developments in the three parts in Bharat, Pakistan and Bangladesh of the Hindusthan Peninsula. It is the bounden duty of every lover of this country to see that such a tragedy does not happen again.Also those who demand special rights on the pretext of his being religious minorities, only weaken the collective will of the nation. They will also, by their refusing to join the mainstream as equal partners, become suspect in the eyes of others. The shining example of Parsis is before such people as a corrective model. In 1943, the then Secretary if State, Mr L.S. Amery, invited some Parsi representatives and suggested to them that they should ask for separate representation in various legislature. The suggestion was emphatically spurned in a representation sent to Mr Amery signed by nearly 2,000 leading Parsis, and affirming that `our interests are safe in the hands of sister communities.' Recalling this episode, Sir R.K. Sidhwa, a prominent Parsi member of the Constituent Assembly, said that if minorities were encouraged to think in terms of permanent minority safeguards, "there will be a kind of perpetual instinct in the mind of the minority community representatives that the safeguards are to remain for ever, and it will be difficult for these small communities to come nearer to major communities." Sri Sidhwa added : "The ultimate phase of political life of all Indians should be one nation, no community." Well, this should be the one supreme
goal before all the children of this soil, "Not a community but
one Nation." And this, verily, is the call of Hindu Rashtra. |
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