Why Veer Sarvarkar asked Hindu Sabha leaders to join Muslim Majority Government in Sindh, Bengal, Punjab and NWFP?
Questions were therefore obviously being asked of Savarkar and his policy of ‘practical politics' to safeguard Hindu interests. However, Savarkar held on to his view. On 10 June 1943, he issued a lengthy statement justifying the Hindu presence in several Muslim-majority ministries, even if it meant allying with the Muslim League. He said that wherever an opportunity arises in a Muslim majority ministry, the Hindu members should capture positions of power and influence to better voice the concerns and legitimate rights of their community. Their presence would act as an effective bulwark against any possible anti-Hindu activities that the ministry might undertake, he believed.
But they (Hindu Ministers) should oppose publicly every attempt on the part of the Moslem Ministry to support Pakistan or the treacherous principle of Provincial self-determination to secede. The Provincial Hindu Sabhas should be left free on all other details to agitate against any anti-Hindu step on the part of the Ministry in its collective capacity and if the Hindu Ministers are known to have recorded their protest against such steps, they should not be asked to resign their seats on the Ministry. The leading principle which must be emphasized is that boycotting the Ministry altogether is bound to be more often than not highly detrimental to Hindu interest.
He prescribed a coalition model with the Muslims even in Hindu-majority states if and when such opportunities arise there, but with the fundamental idea of non-support of Pakistan and secession. Within the scope of these leading principles the formation of ministries and adjustment to the special circumstances prevailing in each province should be left to the discretion of the respective provincial Hindu Sabha.'
[Reproduced from Vikram Sampath book on Veer Savarkar by Dr Vivek Arya]
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