HINDU PROTEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 148, 25 June 1945, Page 5

HINDU PROTEST

"DEVICE TO PERPETUATE BRITISH RULE" Rec. 12.10 p.m. LONDON, June 24. A resolution passed by the working committee of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha at Poona described Lord Wavell's plan as "a deliberate British device to perpetuate British rule in India " The resolution also described the plan as being intended to camouflage the issue of India's independence and break the solidarity of the Indian nation. , "The plan is designed to reduce the Hindus, who con sabha at Poona described Lord Wavell's plan as "a deliberate British device to perpetuate British rule in India " The resolution also described the plan as being intended to camouflage the issue of India's independence and break the solidarity of the Indian nation. , "The plan is designed to reduce the Hindus, who constitute 75 per cent, of the population of India, to a minority by the introduction of parity between the Moslems and the caste Hindus, and disparity between the Moslems and the scheduled castes, and also to divide the politically-minded Hindu community into- separate entities such as 'caste Hindus' and 'schedule caste Hindus," it said. "Lord Wavell's scheme even if it is accepted at the Simla conference, will repudiate a Hindu India, and, if enforced, will be resisted by all possible means." The working committee called on its branch organisations throughout India to observe a protest week from July 1 to 7, and proclaimed July 8 as an all-Indian hartal day, inyolving a general suspension of business as a mark of the nation's resentment.