How PM Narendra Modi & RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Keep 'Akhand Bharat' Alive
3 years, 1 month ago

How PM Narendra Modi & RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Keep 'Akhand Bharat' Alive

The Quint  

Bhagwat contended that Indian leaders at the time of Partition did not have the vision, courage or conviction to prevent it. The RSS has long argued that partition could have been averted because MA Jinnah died within a few months and it was hastiness on part of Nehru to acquire power that led to a truncated territory being India. In twelve years since December 2009, there has been little evolution in Bhagwat’s thoughts on issues of partition and minorities, especially Muslims. Even back then, he dubbed all minorities as descendants of Hindus and asserted, “There is no minority here.” The RSS chief’s recent statements are almost a verbatim copy of what he said previously although he has begun to couch it differently. The RSS had proclaimed 15 August, 1947 as a day of mourning for the destruction of the “sacred indivisibility of Bharat Mata.” MS Golwalkar also famously declared in 1956: “We have to pledge resolutely not to rest content until we have wiped out this blot.” An August 1965 Jana Sangh resolution stated: “Muslims will integrate themselves with the national life and Akhand Bharat will be a reality, unifying India and Pakistan once we are able to remove separatist politics.”

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Congress, allies support RSS chief's Manipur statement, urge Modi to act
7 months ago

Congress, allies support RSS chief's Manipur statement, urge Modi to act

Hindustan Times  

Leaders from the Indian National Congress and other opposition leaders banded together to back RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's statement on the ongoing violence in Manipur, attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the deteriorating situation in the northeastern state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Opposition leaders advised PM Modi to pay heed to Mohan Bhagwat's comment about the situation in strife-torn Manipur, …

Kharge: BJP’s Ancestors Had Backed UK, Muslim League
9 months, 1 week ago

Kharge: BJP’s Ancestors Had Backed UK, Muslim League

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge responded on Monday to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's criticism of the Congress manifesto. Kharge countered by accusing the BJP's "ideological ancestors" of supporting the British and the Muslim League against Indians during the freedom struggle. In a post on X, Kharge stated: "Modi-Shah's political and ideological ancestors supported the British and the Muslim League …

Kharge accuses BJP's 'ideological ancestors' of backing British, Muslim League over Indian interests
9 months, 1 week ago

Kharge accuses BJP's 'ideological ancestors' of backing British, Muslim League over Indian interests

New Indian Express  

"Even today, they are invoking the Muslim League against the 'Congress Nyay Patra', guided and shaped according to the aspirations, needs and demands of common Indians," he added. In his post, Kharge alleged, "Modi-Shah's ideological ancestors opposed Mahatma Gandhi's call for 'Quit India' in 1942, which was the movement chaired by Maulana Azad." Everyone knows how Shyama Prasad Mukherjee formed …

Partition a historical mistake: Owaisi
1 year, 2 months ago

Partition a historical mistake: Owaisi

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday called the Partition of India “a historical mistake that should not have happened.” Owaisi was responding to a question from a reporter during a press conference on comments made by Samajwadi Party leader S.P. On local political issues, he accused the Congress of keeping “a door open” to join hands with the BJP …

India's partition was a 'historical mistake', says AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi
1 year, 2 months ago

India's partition was a 'historical mistake', says AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi

India TV News  

Describing the partition of India a “historical mistake”, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said that the country should never have been divided. Owaisi recalls Maulana Abul Kalam Azad The AIMIM chief suggested reading a book by freedom fighter and the country’s first Education Minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s book ‘India wins Freedom’, and talked about how he pleaded to …

Partition only due to 2 persons: Manik Saha
1 year, 5 months ago

Partition only due to 2 persons: Manik Saha

Hindustan Times  

AGARTALA: India was partitioned in 1947 due to the wishes of only “two persons” though many Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and people from all other religions were against it, Tripura chief minister Manik Saha said at a programme to mark Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in Agartala on Monday. Tripura chief minister Manik Saha “If we think that only Hindus didn’t want …

‘Some countries’ seeking to replicate divide-and-rule policy: Mohan Bhagwat
1 year, 6 months ago

‘Some countries’ seeking to replicate divide-and-rule policy: Mohan Bhagwat

Hindustan Times  

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has underlined the importance of harmonious co-existence while accusing “some countries” of seeking to replicate the divide-and-rule policy of India’s erstwhile British rulers to fulfil their “selfish goals”. Speaking at a book release function in Nagpur on Tuesday evening, Bhagwat said “outside forces” cannot defeat a united India. The chief of the ruling Bharatiya …

Rahul Gandhi wants to ambush PM Modi’s US visit, but setting insidious narratives from abroad won’t serve his purpose
1 year, 7 months ago

Rahul Gandhi wants to ambush PM Modi’s US visit, but setting insidious narratives from abroad won’t serve his purpose

Firstpost  

Rahul Gandhi has once again gone abroad to indulge in his favourite exercise. Rahul’s engagements are therefore marked by vitriolic outbursts against Modi and withering denigration of India under Modi, and in his penchant for criticizing the prime minister — whom he tries to portray as an authoritarian pantomime — the Congress leader frequently ends up casting aspersions on India’s …

There is pain...: RSS chief says people in Pakistan unhappy, believe Partition was a mistake
1 year, 9 months ago

There is pain...: RSS chief says people in Pakistan unhappy, believe Partition was a mistake

India Today  

People in Pakistan are unhappy after more than seven decades of Independence and believe partition was a mistake, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Friday. Those who came to India are happy today but those who are there are not happy: RSS chief pic.twitter.com/OOdxGi8HFg — ANI April 1, 2023 "It was Bharat before 1947. 'DIVIDED BHARAT A NIGHTMARE' …

Partitioned Freedom: Ram Madhav's new book triggers shift in popular perception of RSS’ view on Mahatma Gandhi
2 years, 1 month ago

Partitioned Freedom: Ram Madhav's new book triggers shift in popular perception of RSS’ view on Mahatma Gandhi

Firstpost  

The book marks an important intervention in the study of India’s colonial struggle and eventual partition, and definitely forms a significant contribution to RSS’s historiography on partition Tomes of literature and scholarly work on India’s bloodied partition have been produced over decades, so much so, as to reduce the effort to write on the subject to a banal exercise. In …

PM again ‘whitewashed’ real history: Congress slams Modi for criticizing Nehru on Kashmir
2 years, 3 months ago

PM again ‘whitewashed’ real history: Congress slams Modi for criticizing Nehru on Kashmir

Firstpost  

The prime minister stated that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel deftly resolved issues related to merger of other princely states, but “one person” could not settle the Kashmir issue, in a veiled attack on India’s first PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his criticism directed at Jawaharlal Nehru on the Kashmir issue, …

Manish Tewari | 75 years later, it’s time to bury Partition legacy
2 years, 5 months ago

Manish Tewari | 75 years later, it’s time to bury Partition legacy

Deccan Chronicle  

Tomorrow Independent India would be 75 years old. Did the sharp inflection points between the Hindus and Muslims as a consequence of over 70 invasions by Muslim invaders between AD 1000 and AD 1700 finally find expression when a more cunning but religiously different imperialist “the firangi” became India’s overlord especially after the failure of the Mutiny of 1857 or …

'Nehru Responsible for Partition, Rejecting UCC': Rambahadur Rai's Book To Be Unveiled by PM Today
2 years, 6 months ago

'Nehru Responsible for Partition, Rejecting UCC': Rambahadur Rai's Book To Be Unveiled by PM Today

News 18  

Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, has been held responsible for Partition and the creation of Pakistan, bringing amendments to the Constitution and blocking the formulation of a Uniform Civil Code in a book titled Bharatiya Samvidhan: Ankahi Kahani. “In his letter to the then West Bengal Chief Minister Vidhan Chandra Roy, Nehru confessed many things including if …

June 15, 1947: When Congress accepted Mountbatten plan that divided India on religious lines
2 years, 7 months ago

June 15, 1947: When Congress accepted Mountbatten plan that divided India on religious lines

Op India  

The partition of India is one of the greatest horrors inflicted on India that haunts every Indian even today. 75 years ago today the ‘nationalist’ Congress party along with MK Gandhi approved the plan of dividing the Bharat into two sovereign entities- India and Pakistan, to maintain its basic ‘secular nationalist’ character. He said, “Friends, in India, there live two …

The Bengal Conundrum: Partition of Bengal and the Growth in Muslim Separatism
2 years, 7 months ago

The Bengal Conundrum: Partition of Bengal and the Growth in Muslim Separatism

News 18  

It has been a year since unprecedented violence took place in West Bengal after the Assembly election results were announced. The British had decided to partition Bengal primarily for two reasons — first, to curb the growing nationalism and second to promote Muslim separatism. The partition encouraged the rise of communalism in the Muslim community and the utilization of mob …

Jinnah partitioned India once but BJP leaders are dividing country every day: Sanjay Raut
2 years, 9 months ago

Jinnah partitioned India once but BJP leaders are dividing country every day: Sanjay Raut

India TV News  

Highlights Jinnah had partitioned India only once, but BJP creating a rift between Hindus and Muslims: Raut Sanjay Raut also slammed BJP for terming the Uddhav Thackeray-led party "Janab Sena". Raut said RSS has formed many organisations for Muslims such as Rashtriya Muslim Manch Muhammad Ali Jinnah had partitioned India only once to create Pakistan but BJP leaders are dividing …

Book Review: S.S. Sharma's 'The Great Tragedy of India’s Partition’ helps to understand the circumstances of India’s Partition
2 years, 11 months ago

Book Review: S.S. Sharma's 'The Great Tragedy of India’s Partition’ helps to understand the circumstances of India’s Partition

The Hindu  

P artition, or rather the vivisection of India, as Mahatma Gandhi termed it, is a theme of enduring interest, both to the rapidly diminishing generation that suffered and survived it and to the succeeding generations in the subcontinent. As for the Lahore Resolution, adopted in March 1940 by the Muslim League without mentioning the word “Pakistan”, the author correctly points …

Partition of India a 'historic mistake': Farooq Abdullah
3 years, 1 month ago

Partition of India a 'historic mistake': Farooq Abdullah

India TV News  

Highlights Farooq Abdullah on Monday said that India's partition was a historic mistake. India's partition was a historic mistake, and not only Kashmiris but the entire Muslim community had to bear its brunt, National Conference national president Farooq Abdullah said on Monday. Supporting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's statement on the country's partition, Abdullah said had there been no partition, the …

74 Years after Partition, How Jinnah’s Opening Gambit Has Succeeded in Kashmir
3 years, 1 month ago

74 Years after Partition, How Jinnah’s Opening Gambit Has Succeeded in Kashmir

News 18  

When Partition talks were on, Jinnah’s opening position was simple. But 74 years after Partition, it seems Jinnah’s opening gambit has largely succeeded, thanks to India’s ‘intellectual elite’. Curiously, it was the same Sheikh Abdullah who opposed Jinnah’s ‘Muslim majority states must automatically become part of Pakistan’ formula and then invariably gravitated towards the formula due to politics. Some scholars …

Partition did not happen due to Muslims but due to Jinnah: Owaisi
3 years, 2 months ago

Partition did not happen due to Muslims but due to Jinnah: Owaisi

India TV News  

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said that the Congress party should be blamed for the partition of India in 1947. Owaisi's comments came amid a controversy over Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief OP Rajbhar's statement that had Mohammed Ali Jinnah been made the first Prime Minister of India, there would not have been partition. "The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is responsible …

Akhilesh's ally Om Prakash Rajbhar blames RSS for partition
3 years, 2 months ago

Akhilesh's ally Om Prakash Rajbhar blames RSS for partition

India TV News  

A day after saying that there would have been no partition if Muhammad Ali Jinnah was made the first prime minister of the country, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar blamed the RSS on Thursday for the historic event. Reiterating his stand, Rajbhar said if Jinnah was made the first prime minister of independent India, there would have …

'India Would Not Have Seen Partition Had Jinnah Been Made First PM', SBSP Chief Rajbhar Says
3 years, 2 months ago

'India Would Not Have Seen Partition Had Jinnah Been Made First PM', SBSP Chief Rajbhar Says

News 18  

Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Wednesday said there would have been no partition had Mohammad Ali Jinnah been made the first prime minister, adding to the row on a remark by Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav. Rajbhar made the assertion, in the wake of his poll ally Yadav talking of Jinnah in the same breath as …

Had Godse killed Jinnah instead of Gandhi, partition would’ve been averted: Shiv Sena
3 years, 4 months ago

Had Godse killed Jinnah instead of Gandhi, partition would’ve been averted: Shiv Sena

Hindustan Times  

In the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to observe August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, the Shiv Sena has questioned what did the people, who are now vouching for undivided India, do when the country was on the verge of the partition. Sanjay Raut said it was Lokmanya Tilak who had accepted the demand for Separate Electorates …

Had Godse killed Jinnah instead of Gandhi, partition would’ve been averted: Shiv Sena
3 years, 4 months ago

Had Godse killed Jinnah instead of Gandhi, partition would’ve been averted: Shiv Sena

Hindustan Times  

In the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to observe August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, the Shiv Sena has questioned what did the people, who are now vouching for undivided India, do when the country was on the verge of the partition. Sanjay Raut Shiv Sena parliamentarian Sanjay Raut, in his weekly column Rokthok in party mouthpiece …

Mere symbolism won't remove pain of partition: Shiv Sena
3 years, 4 months ago

Mere symbolism won't remove pain of partition: Shiv Sena

India TV News  

The Shiv Sena on Monday said the pain of partition will not go away by mere symbolism, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that August 14 will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day. "The present-day rulers must take care that seeds of another partition should not be sown from the earlier pain," an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece …

‘Modi Trying to Create History Without Knowing It’: TMC MP Slams Centre over Partition Horrors Remembrance Day
3 years, 5 months ago

‘Modi Trying to Create History Without Knowing It’: TMC MP Slams Centre over Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

News 18  

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared August 14 Partition Horror Remembrance Day, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy strongly criticised the government and said “Modi is trying to create history without knowing it”. BJP is the new avatar of Hindu Mahasabha.” “Partition is what people of Bengal will always remember and TMC will counter BJP,” Roy added. He …

Historical photo shows Nehru and others voting in favour of partition
3 years, 5 months ago

Historical photo shows Nehru and others voting in favour of partition

Op India  

On the day PM Modi declared August 14 to be observed as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ to acknowledge the pain undergone by Indians due to the partition of India in 1947, an unseen picture of Congress delegates voting in favour of partition has gone viral on the internet. The picture of Congress members, which also included India’s first Prime Minister …

Aakar Patel incites Indian Muslims to demand separate electorates
4 years, 5 months ago

Aakar Patel incites Indian Muslims to demand separate electorates

Op India  

Former head of Amnesty India, which claims to be a humanitarian organisation, Aakar Patel, has decided it is time for him channel the spirit of Mohammed Ali Jinnah and make an elaborate defence for the creation of Pakistan. During an elaborate meltdown on micro-blogging site Twitter, Aakar Patel said it was time for Muslims in India to demand proportional representation …

'Muslims chose to stay in India after partition' is a myth used to make Hindus feel guilty
4 years, 5 months ago

'Muslims chose to stay in India after partition' is a myth used to make Hindus feel guilty

Op India  

Hindus celebrated across the world as the 500-year-old battle to reclaim the Ram Janmabhoomi culminated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi doing the ‘Bhoomi Pujan’ for the Bhavya Ram Mandir. One of the foremost arguments used by the apologetics of Islamism when any criticism of the barbarity heaped by invaders is mounted is that any such criticism is misplaced since the …

By agreeing to Partition, Congress kept India united
4 years, 10 months ago

By agreeing to Partition, Congress kept India united

The Hindu  

It has become a fashion these days to blame the Congress for Partition. Cabinet Mission Plan Moreover, documentary evidence, especially the resolution of the Muslim League Council in June 1946 that accepted the Cabinet Mission Plan, proves that the Muslim League’s acceptance was premised on the belief that the Plan was a stepping stone towards the ultimate formation of Pakistan, …

PM Modi reminds Congress of Nehru's role in India's partition
4 years, 11 months ago

PM Modi reminds Congress of Nehru's role in India's partition

Op India  

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the Congress for spreading misinformation on Citizenship Amendment Act and made references to former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s role in the partition of the country. In a veiled reference to Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “For someone’s aspiration to become the Prime Minister of …

Partition was a historic swindle that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must see through; steps to undo British wrongdoing necessary
5 years ago

Partition was a historic swindle that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must see through; steps to undo British wrongdoing necessary

Firstpost  

A historical united people’s struggle led by patriotic, modern-minded leaders, like Mustafa Kemal of Turkey or the leaders of Japan after the Meiji Restoration, will be required for bringing about a transformation to lift India from the ranks of underdeveloped to developed countries Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s birth anniversary was on 25 December, and on this occasion, many Pakistanis said that …

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition
5 years ago

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition

Deccan Chronicle  

The current time in India has brought us an accurate reproduction of the days leading up to Partition. 11) Provision should be made in the Constitution giving Muslims an adequate share, along with the other Indians, in all the services of the state and in local self-governing bodies having due regard to the requirements of efficiency. 12) The Constitution should …

Partition imposed on minorities of Pakistan, temples, churches, gurdwaras vandalised: Here is what Modi said
5 years, 1 month ago

Partition imposed on minorities of Pakistan, temples, churches, gurdwaras vandalised: Here is what Modi said

Op India  

Launching a blistering attack on the Congress party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the party failed to act on the issue of persecuted minorities in the neighbouring countries. Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill debate: Opposition speaking the same language as Pakistan, says PM Modi Targetting the Congress party for the partition of the country, PM Modi said that the …

Modi clamps down on Kashmir, and India loves him for it
5 years, 4 months ago

Modi clamps down on Kashmir, and India loves him for it

Associated Press  

The achingly beautiful Himalayan valley was flooded with soldiers and roadblocks of razor wire. “All of Kashmir is ours!” a jubilant middle-aged demonstrator, draped in the saffron-colored scarf of a Hindu, shouted during a New Delhi street celebration just before Parliament voted to end Kashmir’s decades of semi-autonomy. “Kashmir is part of India, and whatever rules apply to us should …

Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget
5 years, 5 months ago

Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget

Al Jazeera  

More than 70 years ago today, the Indian subcontinent was divided by its British colonial rulers into two nation-states – India and Pakistan. In the schools that I work in Pakistan, students frequently tell me that they celebrate Pakistan’s independence from not the British Empire but “Hindu India” every August. Mourning a breakup in India As Pakistan celebrates the “making …

Partition wouldn't have happened if Jinnah had become PM: Dalai Lama
6 years, 5 months ago

Partition wouldn't have happened if Jinnah had become PM: Dalai Lama

Deccan Chronicle  

Panaji: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Wednesday said Jawaharlal Nehru had a “self-centred attitude” to become India’s first prime minister even though Mahatma Gandhi was in favour of Muhammad Ali Jinnah taking the top post at that time. Responding to a student’s question on taking right decisions, he said, “I feel democratic systems are very good than the feudal …

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