INDIAN INDEPENDENCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 308, 31 December 1942, Page 5

INDIAN INDEPENDENCE

HINDU HOSTILITY TO MOSLEMS New Delhi, Dec. 29. The Mahasabha maj’ be called on to fight the Moslem League’s attempt to force its demand for Pakistan, declared Mr. Savarkar, presiding at the annual session of the All-India of the Mahasabha, the orthodox Hindu organisation, at ('awnpore. He added: “The entire burden of responsibility for resisting such a demand may fall on the Mahasabha. I call on Hindus to mobilise all their strength for the defence of the integrity of India. Hindus want an indeoendence in which all communities will have equal rights, responsibilities and duties. Such independence would not tolerate a particular community attempting, on religious grounds, to get itself cut off from the central Government or demanding portions of the country for itself, or any other aggressive claim by any party or community. “Such claim will be put down as an act of treachery by the united strength of the central Government.” It is officially announced in New Delhi that the Government has lifted the ban on the Khaksara, the Moslem semi-military organisation, and also the restrictions placed on its leader, Ailama Mashrlqul, a former member of the Indian Education Service, who has been interned at Madras since March, 1941. The decision was taken after Mashriqui instructed his followers to help rhe war effort and not embarrass the Government.