There are many such incidents that say that there was a lot of respect for Mahatma Gandhi in the Sangh.
The charge of involvement in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was the reason for the first ban on the Sangh. However, allegations against the Sangh were found to be false in the investigation. The government also lifted the ban from the union. But the opponents of the Sangh still repeat these allegations. They are not ready to free the Sangh from this responsibility. On the other hand, the Sangh has been dismissing such allegations outright.
At that time, the dialogue between the Sangh and Mahatma Gandhi and his share in the programs of the Sangh shows that there was a lot of respect for Mahatma Gandhi in the Sangh. In the address of the Union Education Class of 1946, Guru Golwalkar described Bapu as world vandalized. In his reverse song, he was considered one of the memorable great men in the morning. Read the story of Mahatma Gandhi and Sangh’s relationship on the occasion of the centenary year of the Sangh
Thirteen days mourning of the Sangh on Bapu’s murder
Sarsanghchalak Madhavrao Sadashiv Golwalkar Gurji Guruji was in Madras at the time of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on 30 January 1948. On receiving this sad news, he expressed his anger and sorrow by sending wires to Pandit Nehru, Sardar Patel and Devdas Gandhi.
Describing Mahatma Gandhi as a great personality and unique organizer, he condemned this cruel scandal. On the same day, he had instructed all the branches of the Sangh to mourn the next thirteen days according to the Hindu custom on the demise of the respected Mahatma Gandhi and keep all the activities of the organization postponed.
Guruji had also said inadequate punishment for Godse’s severe punishment
The next day Guruji reached Nagpur and sent a letter to Nehru and condemned Godse. He wrote, “This condemnable act performed by a thoughtless and evil -hearted person has tarnished our society in the eyes of the world. If someone from an enemy country had done this misdeed, he would have been unforgivable, because the life of the revered Mahatma was not bound in the boundaries of a certain society, but it was dedicated to the welfare of all humanity, but this is the only person who is a sinful person. It is wonder that the heart of every nationalist is filled with uninteresting pain today, when I have filled this news.
Nathuram Godse.
All were against the Sangh then
At that time nothing was favorable for the Sangh. The government was taking steps against the Sangh, considering the involvement of the Sangh in this murder. On 3 February, information arrived at the Sangh branches that Guruji is under house arrest. On 4 February, the government announced a ban on the union. The next day, twenty thousand members of the Sangh, including almost all the campaigners, were arrested.
The Sangh faced three sanctions in independent India. But the first ban of seventeen months caused him to suffer the most. Union thinker MG According to Vaidya, at that time, “public, government and newspapers” were all against us. The people associated with the Sangh were angry at the people associated with the Sangh, considering Mahatma Gandhi’s killer Nathuram Godse as a member of the Sangh.
Nathuram used to abuse the Sangh
Of course Godse was once a member of the Sangh. But long before this scandal, he was angry with the Sangh. Union thinker MG According to Vaidya, “Godse used to abuse the Sangh. We used to call us very slowly.” According to Lal Krishna Advani, he had great bitterness towards the Sangh. It was alleged that the RSS weakened the attackers of Hindus and made them disabled.
Not only Golwalkar but also Godse himself denied being a member of the Sangh at the time of the murder. In 1965, the government constituted a commission under the chairmanship of Justice JL Kapur to investigate the conspiracy of the Gandhi murder case. According to the report presented by the Commission in 1969 after the intensive investigation of 101 testimony and 407 documents, no contact was found between RS and Godse. It was clarified in the report that the Sangh had no connection with this conspiracy. However, the critics of the Sangh still did not stop. He said that what Godse did was the result of the Sangh’s ideology.
Mahatma Gandhi.
What was the thinking of the Sangh about Gandhi?
What has the Sangh thinking about Mahatma Gandhi? Lal Krishna Advani, who started his public life as a Sangh pracharak, wrote in his autobiography, “Our condensation is not tired that the Sangh was full of hatred towards Mahatma Gandhi and he was also involved in his assassination. But he was also mentioned in his assassination. It is important to mention the mutual respect of the Sangh and Mahatma Gandhi. It is necessary to mention his unity of his unity, the union of India, the union is a mental song in it, the union of the union of India is a mental song in it and such It is not that it has been added later.
In 1946, when Gandhi was alive, Sriguruji described him as world-disinterested while addressing the education class of the Sangh. Mahatma Gandhi came to Wardha on 25 December 1934. On knowing that fifteen hundred volunteers have come to the Sangh camp there, he expressed his desire to meet him. Meera Ben and Mahadev Desai were with him. A wreath was presented to Mahatma Gandhi. The volunteers gave the guard of honor. Gandhiji said about that offering, “I was very impressed.”
Mahatma Gandhi expressed his desire to meet Guruji.
That gift of Gandhi-Guruji
Mahatma Gandhi expressed his desire to meet Guruji amid the declaration of independence and the violence of partition. On 12 September 1947, Guruji met Mahatma Gandhi at Birla House. Gandhi mentioned him about the complaints related to the Union of Delhi and Calcutta. Guruji told him that the Sangh cannot guarantee the personal conduct of every volunteer, but the Sangh policy is purely served Hindus. They do not threaten any community.
The Sangh does not believe in non -violence but does not even support the attack. In this meeting, both of them emphasized on immediate stopping communal frenzy. In his prayer meeting, Mahatma Gandhi also mentioned the concern of Guruji on this gift and gruesome situation around. Guruji assured Mahatma Gandhi to issue an appeal for peace. This appeal was broadcast and published in newspapers.
What did Mahatma Gandhi say to the Sangh volunteers?
Mahatma Gandhi found the support of the Sangh necessary for the establishment of peace in that atmosphere of communal violence. Was the Sangh’s attitude positive? In the meeting of 12 September, Mahatma Gandhi told Guruji that he wants to address a conference of Sangh workers.
Four days later, on 16 September, about five hundred volunteers of the Sangh were present to listen to Mahatma Gandhi in Bhangi Colony of Delhi. These volunteers were reminded of the camp of Wardha 13 years ago by Mahatma Gandhi in which the founder of the Sangh was also present with him. Mahatma Gandhi said on this occasion, “I was very impressed by the spirit of discipline, complete sacrifice of untouchability and simplicity of simplicity. Any organization, which is inspired by the high ideals of service and self-sacrifice, cannot live without increasing its power.”
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