MOSLEM CLAIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 4

MOSLEM CLAIMS

DENOUNCED BY HINDU LEADER * QUESTION OF INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA. PARTITION TO BE RESISTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) NEW DELHI, December 29. The Hindu Mahasabha may be called on to fight the Moslem League’s attempt to force their demand for Pakistan (a separate Moslem State) declared Mr Savarkar, presiding at the annual session of the All-India Mahasabha at Cawnpore. 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 forces and to reserve all their strength for the defence of the integrity of India. Hindus want an independence in which all communities will have equal rights, responsibilities and duties. Such an independence will 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 claims 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 its ban on the Khaksars, a Moslem semimilitary organisation, and also the. restrictions placed on its leader, Allama Mashriqui, a former member of the Indian education service, who has been interned at Madras since March, 1941. The decision was taken after Mashriqui had instructed his followers to help in the war effort and not to embarrass the Government.