The country enters upon the year Nineteen Hundred and Fifty Seven with an air of expectancy. This year, two centuries ago, the British laid the foundation of their power in this country at the unfought Battle of Plassey. And this same year a century ago the people shook that power to its very foundations. The year 1957 therefore at once rouses an admixture of fears and hopes. The scheduled general elections three months hence only lend an edge to this feeling. One can only trust the essential soundness of the national mind, and look forward to a year of achievement–of deliverance from mounting totalitarianism, and initiation into an era of national fulfillment. At the Amritsar session the Congress changed “Socialistic Pattern” to “Socialist Pattern”. Pt. Nehru discovered that there was no difference between the two expressions! And now in Indore the Congress has changed this further to a “full socialist order of society.” Obviously it is playing with words to hoodwink the unwary, while all the time prices and taxes rise and standards and morals fall. Already the rot within the Congress organization is reminiscent of the last days of the Kuomintang—with this difference that the challenge to the Congress comes not from the Communists but from the Bharatiya Jana Sangha.
Tampering with 1857 CentenaryThe Self-Appointed “Central National Committee” for the celebration of the Centenary of India’s first struggle for freedom, at its first meeting held in New Delhi on December 30, decided that the celebrations should be held on August 15 and 16, 1957 throughout the country. We wonder whether the official Committee wants to celebrate the first fight for freedom against the British, or the failure of the same. Because, as is well known, this fight started on May 10, 1857 and was nearly over by August 15, 1857. Such tampering with historic dates is un-understandable except as a deliberate device to play down that great struggle. n |
Jana Sangha Resolves…Indian Culture The Bharatiya Jana Sangha resolves that for the development of nationalism one culture should be imbibed in all the nationals of the country. For the implementation of this task the society and the Government should take the following steps:- |
