Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Excerpt from Mr. L.K.Advanis book, Interview and others about India's partition

Here are some extracts from various interviews and books and extracts by Mr. lK advani.


WAS THERE ANY RIVALRY BETWEEN THE RSS AND THE MUSLIM LEAGUE IN KARACHI? WERE YOU IN A SENSE – YOU WERE IN OPPOSITE CAMPS BECAUSE YOU HAD DIFFERENT IDEAS ABOUT PARTITION
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No. The Muslim League wasn’t very strong there. In fact, if opinion were to be taken among even the Muslims of Sindh, I do not know how many would have favoured Partition. I do not know. Because the support to Partition, very enthusiastic support, came from parts of the country which were outside that area of Pakistan.

SO WHAT HAPPENED TO CHANGE THAT?
 
The change came about as far as I am concerned, or perhaps the entire Hindu population of Sindh is concerned, by an explosion that took place in September in Karachi. And that explosion was attributed – a bomb explosion - it was attributed to the RSS. And then there was a wholesale of RSS people - this, that. I came at that point of time. And incidentally, about the same time Gandhi-ji addressed a meeting of RSS here in Delhi and I remember very well the ‘Dawn’ issue of the 12th of September or 11th of September - one of these days - 1947, in which on one side was a report on Gandhi’s address to the RSS rally here in the course of which he had criticised Pakistan for trying to send tribesmen in Kashmir and said that if Pakistan persists in this kind of attitude, who knows there may be a war between India and Pakistan, that should not happen. And – so that on one side there was that report on the explosion in Karachi which was headlined ‘RSS Plot to Blow Up Pakistan Unearthed’ and on the other side was ‘Gandhi Speaks to RSS Volunteers in Terms of War’. These were the two headings that I recall.

Why did Mr.L.K Advani did not become prime minister of india?


On his visit to Pakistan in June 2005, Advani – as part of a rebranding exercise – hailed Muhammad Ali Jinnah as “secular” and an “ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity”. Two days prior to this public praise of the person who developed the two-nation theory, Advani distanced himself from the concept of akhand Bharat. He also admitted to Partition being “an unalterable reality of history”. This tactic did not enable him to win over the middle ground in Indian politics and simultaneously, he lost his hold on the right. However he was also born in Pakistan side of undivided India would be another reason, as now Mr. narendra modi and the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat are shaking hands with the same muslim  community which the same RSS people at the time of partition were vocal against these muslims, just because Mr Narendra Modi is against parivarwadi which is actually favouring Sunni muslim concept that any one can head any organisation or faith or country as compared to Shia faith where only blood relation is entitled to claim on the title of the the deceased.


My Deductive views over above:-
It seems from the above that external factors not belonging to the Pakistan region of undivided India were a cause of the partition of India an Pakistan as the bombing claimed by RSS in the Pakistan side of undivided India and the news article about Mahatma Gandhi related to war may be in reason. Another possible reason is that was it a Sunni ( Indian Muslims who possibly migrated from India to Pakistan ) and shia muslims ( who were predominatly in Pakistan ) had a possible fight at the time of partition and actually it was a shia Sunni divide that was causing the divide. Some thoughts of reflection.


https://m.thewire.in/article/books/book-excerpt-babri-masjid-advani-modi

https://www.andrewwhitehead.net/partition-voices-lk-advani.html