Subramanian Swamy: Most Chaddis including the Chaddi Supremo cowered before Indira Gandhi

by Guest Sun Mar 19, 2017 6:39 pm

For one, during that 1975-77 period, most of the leaders of the BJP/RSS had betrayed the struggle against the Emergency. It is on the record in the Maharashtra Assembly proceedings that the then RSS chief, Balasaheb Deoras, wrote several apology letters to Indira Gandhi from inside the Yerawada jail in Pune disassociating the RSS from the JP-led movement and offering to work for the infamous 20-point programme. She did not reply to any of his letters. Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee also wrote apology letters to Indira Gandhi, and she had obliged him. In fact for most of the 20-month Emergency, Mr. Vajpayee was out on parole after having given a written assurance that he would not participate in any programmes against the Government.

http://www.thehindu.com/2000/06/13/stories/05132524.htm

by Guest Sun Mar 19, 2017 6:42 pm

Now for Deoras’ letters to Indira Gandhi. Not once did he ask her to lift the Emergency, release Jayaprakash Narayan and other leaders, including Vajpayee and Advani, lift the censorship on the press and revoke the orders banning public meetings. The letters concerned him and his outfit alone. Earnest entreaties and fulsome praise were plied with promises of support. Deoras’ first letter of August 25, 1975, to the Prime Minister began with praise for her speech (“balanced”) of August 15, 1975. It ended thus: “I beseech you to rescind the ban imposed on the RSS. I would be pleased [sic.] to meet you if you so desire.” Another followed, then another on July 16, 1976. It said: “Your efforts to improve the [sic.] relations with Pakistan and China are also praiseworthy.”

To S.B. Chavan, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, he wrote on July 15, 1975: “The Sangh has done nothing against the government or society even remotely. There is no place for such things in the Sangh’s programme. The Sangh is engaged only in social and cultural activities.” On January 24, 1976, he complained of the undertakings; sotto voce his green signal went out to the Sanghis, as Baba Adhav discovered. On June 16, 1976, he had even “asked for release on parole with a view to clarifying certain issues directly with you”. Parole is given on terms, as he well knew. This letter was written by an RSS lawyer, V.N. Bhide, no doubt on Deoras’ instructions. It reveals a lot. “The fact that a beginning in releasing detenus on the basis of an undertaking has been made should satisfy both sides. As regards the wording of the undertaking, it will not be proper to use the expression ‘good behaviour’. I hope you will agree and delete this expression. On 6 July 1976, Rule 33 under the Defence of India Act was applied to the R.S.S. Following this the office-bearers of the Sangh have notified suspension of all activities of the Sangh. Therefore there is no need to make non-participation in R.S.S. activities a condition for the release. This indeed is the purpose of this letter.”

Abject apologies from prison are in the good Sangh Parivar tradition. Its hero, V.D. Savarkar, wrote many to the British rulers—in 1911, on November 14, 1913, and on May 9, 1925, to name a few. The last was sent to the Commissioner of Police, Bombay, on February 22, 1948, shortly after Gandhi’s assassination on January 30, a crime in which, as Justice J.L. Kapur of the Supreme Court held, Savarkar was very much complicit. Advani got his portrait hung in the Central Hall of Parliament to face that of the man he had conspired to kill.

http://www.frontline.in/the-nation/servile-sangh/article7499125.ece

Subramanian Swamy: Most Chaddis including the Chaddi Supremo cowered before Indira Gandhi

Subramanian Swamy: Most Chaddis including the Chaddi Supremo cowered before Indira Gandhi

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