भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

campaign of invading Eastern Punjab and capturing Delhi in order to
celebrate the inauguration of Pakistan, what were the Government of Indian
state doing in their capital at Delhi to counteract these dangerous
developments on the part of our enemies? The first step the Congressite
Ministers took was to deny emphatically that there existed any enmity at all
between the two states, that they had won a triumph in bringing about a
bloodless revolution by vivisecting our Motherland to avoid bloodshed and
the only thing that their immediate duty demanded was to order a day for
general rejoicings to celebrate the inauguration of their Indian State. In
Delhi itself, they allowed some fifty thousand Meos and several Khaksars to
concentrate with secret stores of firearms and explosive and with an ill-
conceived design to capture the capital wherein fifty per cent of the police
were allowed to be Moslems under the command of Moslem
Commissioner. The Hindu Sanghatanists kept shouting from housetops
throughout India ‘Danger Ahead’! This is no time for rejoicing, while you
are stranded on the top of a volcano already in erruption! But they were
declared as traitors and communalists, and were hunted out and imprisoned
from provinces to province. The Frontiers of East Punjab were left to rally
undefended. The consequence was that two days before the 15th of August
rose, a general massacre of the Hindu-Sikh population accompanied with
indescribable horrors became the order of the day. But while that Moslem
Province was resounding with shrieks of thousands and thousands of
Hindu-Sikh women, men and children being outraged, murdered, thrown
into flames alive, and was having a bloodbath in rivers of Hindu-Sikh blood
there, here in Delhi, the Ministers of the Indian State were literally feasting
and fiddling to celebrate their bloodless revolution!
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Under these circumstances, what wonder is there that millions of Hindu-
Sikhs prompted by the instinct of self-preservation and animated by the
spirit of pan-Hindu consolidation, rose in arms in East Punjab, in Bharatpur,
in Alwar, in Patiala and in Delhi itself and responded to the best of their
might and means so furiously and effectively as to checkmate the Moslem
hoards from attempting an invasion of East Punjab, threw them on their
defensive and saved Delhi itself from being captured by the Moslems
concentrated there. If Panditji and his Congressite comrades are still safe
and secure in their seats, they owe it to this brave fight which the Hindu
Sanghatanist and Sikh forces gave in the nick of time. And still, it is he,