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It concludes: “When India fought the British,he sabotaged the movement by trying to keep the Muslims away from the national mainstream. Jinnah’s 1916 Lucknow Pact with the Congress was a communal charter,which formalised the Congress’s appeasement strategy,which finally made the Indian Muslim a bargaining chip. He conceived the divisive Muslim attitude of special status instead of equal rights for all. Appeasement led to separatism. Jinnah cruelly and constantly insulted and heaped abuses on Gandhiji,Nehru and other Congress leaders for their correct and nationalist stand of not accepting the Muslim League as the sole representative body of the Muslims. The Congress proved in polls after polls before Partition that it enjoyed the support of more Muslims than Jinnah. Pakistan has a mission to salvage the Jinnah image because he happens to be the father of that country. Pakistan’s eagerness to project Jinnah as a great leader like Mahatma Gandhi,Abraham Lincoln,Nelson Mandela etc. is understandable. But that will not change Jinnah’s image in India. Every exercise in that direction is destined to be doomed”.

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A news item titled ‘Sarsanghchalak hoists National Flag in Chennai’ says: “The first ever visit of Shri Mohan Bhagwat to Chennai on August 15 and 16 after assuming the responsibility of sarsanghachalak was marked by an enthusiastic reception given by Chennai citizens. Shri Bhagwat also attended the Independence Day celebration at Vivekananda Educational Society. A reception committee was formed to welcome Shri Bhagwat under the chairmanship of former Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court Shri Kumar Rajaratnam.

It adds: “Speaking on the occasion,Shri Bhagwat said: ‘The RSS does not work for RSS’s sake. It works to create a mighty,prosperous and homogenous Hindu nation — Bharat. This is necessary for world peace and prosperity. Swayamsevaks have formed various organisations to carry on more than 1,50,000 service activities in society. All such organisations are independent and autonomous. It is the swayamsevak who always and anywhere belongs to the RSS. Sangh out of its own wish,is apolitical but definitely national and will have a say whenever necessary’, he said appealing to the gathering to join the Sangh and work for the nation. At the commencement of his three-day tour,on August 15,Shri Bhagwat was the chief guest at the Independence Day celebration at G.K. Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalaya Junior College,Ambattur,and hoisted the national flag. On the Sri Lankan Tamil issue,he stressed the necessity of rehabilitation and the end of discrimination to Tamils in the island nation. ‘All displaced Tamils have to be rehabilitated. They should be given full relief materials,’ he said.”

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