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Exclusive: 1947 CID Report Says
Reports
available in the public domain in the Delhi Police Archives say that the RSS
did threaten Gandhi and claimed that it had the means to silence him. These are
the secret source reports of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the
Delhi Police for the months preceding Gandhi's assassination.
Here
are some extracts from the verbatim copy of a police report of a crucial RSS
meeting where The threat was made.
The CID
source is identified only as "Sewak" (perhaps an impish play on
'sewaks', the term for RSS volunteers) and filed by Inspector Kartar Singh of
the department:
SEWAK REPORTS
"On
8.12.47 about 2500 volunteers of the Sangh collected in their camp on Rohtak
Road. After some drill, MS Golwalkar, the Guru of the Sangh addressed the
volunteers. He explained the principles of the Sangh and said that it was the
duty of every individual to be prepared for facing the coming crisis with full
force. Very soon, they would be placing a complete scheme before them. The time
for playing had gone. ..."
"Referring
to the Government, he said that law could not meet force. We should be prepared
for guerrilla warfare on the lines of the tactics of Shivaji. The Sangh will
not rest content until it had finished Pakistan. If anyone stood in our way we
will have to finish him too, whether it was the Nehru Government or any other
Government. The Sangh could not be won over. They should carry on their
work."
"Referring
to Muslims, he said that no power on earth could keep them in Hindustan. They
shall have to quit this country. Mahatma Gandhi wanted to keep the Muslims in
India so that the Congress may profit by their votes at the time of election.
But by that time not a single Muslim will be left in India. If they were made
to stay here, the responsibility would be the Government's, and the Hindu
community will not be responsible."
"Mahatma
Gandhi could not mislead them any longer. We have the means whereby such men
can be immediately silenced, but it is our tradition not to be inimical to
Hindus. If we are compelled, we will have to resort to that course also."
LETTERS FROM THE LUCKNOW CID
CHIEF
That
the government of the day understood the importance of the secret meeting is
evident from letters to his counterpart in Delhi by GB Wiggins, the
Superintendent of Police, CID, Special Branch, Lucknow, repeatedly asking what
had taken place at the meeting scheduled for 8 December, 1947. Wiggins had
first alerted the Delhi police about the impending meeting based on a report he
had received from Mathura. After two reminders, the Officiating SP of CID
Delhi, wrote back, sending him the report of the Delhi meeting.
The CID
report from Mathura that got Wiggins so deeply worried was about a secret
meeting of the RSS at Gobardhan in Mathura on 1 December, 1947 at the residence
of one Antu Lal Vaish. It was attended by about 50 RSS men from Etah, Aligarh,
Delhi and Mathura. Those present were informed that "a meeting of the
delegates from all over India is to be held in Delhi on or about 8 December
1947 and the future programme would be chalked out" there.
"50 RSS men met at Mathura on 1 Dec
1947. They mulled assassinating Congress leaders to terrorise public"
This
source report also claimed that one of the issues to be discussed at the 8
December meeting "would be to assassinate leading persons of the Congress
in order to terrorise the public and to get their [RSS'] hold over them"
Might
one say that these two reports from Mathura and Delhi in December 1947
constitute a smoking gun? Not until it can be shown that the RSS had the
weapons to carry out the assassination of Congress leaders.
DID RSS HAVE GUNS?
The CID
reports suggest that there was some truth in what Jawaharlal Nehru said in his
letter of 28 February 1948 to Sardar Patel:
"More
and more I have come to the conclusion that Bapu's murder was not an isolated
business but a part of a much wider campaign organised chiefly by the
RSS."
He even
suggested that "the Delhi Police has a goodly number of sympathisers with
the RSS. It may not be easy to deal with all of them."
Sardar
Patel, however, gave a clean chit to the RSS in his reply to Nehru, saying,
"It also clearly emerges.. that the RSS was not involved in it [Gandhi's
assassination] at all. It was a fanatical wing of the Hindu Mahasabha directly
under [Vinayak Damodar] Savarkar that [hatched] the conspiracy and saw it
through."
Sardar
Patel also noted: "Of course, his assassination was welcomed by those of
the RSS and the Mahasabha who were strongly opposed to his way thinking and his
policy."
However
he put a caveat, "In the case of a secret organisation like the RSS which
has no records of membership; no registers; etc. securing of authentic
information whether a particular individual is an active worker or not is
rendered a difficult task."
If the
above CID reports are true, then it's clear that there was an RSS threat to
Mahatma Gandhi's life, coming from an authority as high as RSS chief MS
Golwalkar. The RSS had the means to carry out the assassination and this was
allegedly discussed at the 8 December meeting at Mathura. What cannot be
conclusively established is whether Nathuram Godse's act was related to these
incidents or that he acted on his own.
AN APPEAL TO THE HONOURABLE JUSTICES OF THE SC
Exhort you to remember the role of Osama Bin Laden, the master mind of 9/11. While he remained ensconced in his remote hideout in Afganistan, his fellow terrorist followers were causing the biggest destruction in the history of US of A.
Police records show that the Parivar and its Guruji, most probably, planned and executed the hateful assassination of the Father of the Nation on that fateful day of Jan 1948 by a soldier of the Parivar.
Edited by
Aditya Menon
Samuel Dhar
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