Co-operation with Other Parties

It is imperative that in the interest of Hindudom, it is absolutely necessary
that there should be an organisation manned by Hindus only to represent
Hindudom as a whole and to protect the interests political, social, cultural,
economical, etc., of the Hindu people as a whole. It was with this particular
mission that the Hindu Mahasabha was started by such eminent patriots like
Lala Lajapat Rai, Madan Mohan Malviya and others and led by Dr. Moonje,
Bhai Paramanandji and other great champions of the Hindu cause. Ever
since its start, the Hindu Mahasabha has been recognised by other political
organisations and even by the British Government also as the foremost, if
not the only, political representative of Hindudom.
Consequently, any question of a merger or a compromise for a common
front for elections or any other object, which demands first of all the
liquidation of the Hindu Mahasabha as a political body representing
Hindudom and seeks to reduce it to a social and cultural organisation only,
cannot but prove most detrimental to the Hindu cause and should never be
countenanced at all.
Inasmuch as the proposals made recently for such a compromise to one
and all seek to deprive the Hindu Mahasabha of this, its main mission of
representing and defending the political interests of the Hindus and
inasmuch as seek to compel it to merge as a Hindu political body into any
old or new organisations, which are open to non-Hindus as well, the
acceptance of any such proposal cannot but constitute the betrayal of the
two most fundamental bedrocks, on which the Hindu Mahasabha was
founded and has been solidly and devotedly taking its stand, namely its
mission of representing Hindudom alone and being manned by Hindus
alone. Consequently, none of these proposals or any new one of the same
nature should ever be even entertained, much less accepted.
Nevertheless, a common front for elections or for any issues commonly
accepted can be formed with the Hindutwanishtha bodies in particular, and
with any political body in general, if that co-operation with those bodies
does, in no way, affect the existence and freedom of the Hindu Mahasabha
as a Hindu organisation representing Hindudom politically and in all other
spheres of national life.
In short, co-operation and no amalgamation or merger is the formula that
should guide all activities of the Hindu Mahasabha.
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