Partition -- rightly deserves 'revisiting' and closer analyses : If Nehru had said -- "We must either accept Partition or face chaos".... Congress and the ecosystem have to do lot of explanation

It's like playing cricket without guards and a hard ball has been set into motion !

Why the ecosystem is so furious? True Congress will have to do a lot of explanation.

If Nehru in July 1947 had said - "We must either accept Partition or face continuous struggle and chaos" --- the Sickularism has to do soul-searching.

The self-righteous Dynasty will have to stop calling people 'chor' ... Real thugs and 'power theft' is closer home !!

The Congress not only 'accepted' (or even connived to an extent) for Partition .... after the Partition was done --- they conspired to play Muslim appeasement politics.

This was to ensure 'captive votes'. And purchasable commodities and historians were easily bought over.   

Come to 2025.

The remarks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Partition have been included in the 'introduction' of the NCERT special module.

There, Modi says: "The pain of Partition can never be forgotten. Our millions of sister and brothers were displaced and many lives were lost due to the ignorance and the hateful violence of people.

In memory of the struggles and sacrifices, our people will observe Aug 14 as the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day'. 

NCERT has released a special module for schools to mark Partition Horrors Remembrance Day.

The module says Partition was not the work of one individual alone but of three forces -- “Jinnah, who had been propagating the partition; 

--- the Congress, which accepted the partition; 

and Mountbatten, who had been sent to implement the partition.”

According to the module between 1947 and 1950, the partition fractured India's unity, created hostile borders, promoted mass killings and displacement and deepened communal distruct.

It devastated the economies of Punjab and Bengal while Jammu and Kashmir was also put on the path of social, economic and demographic decline.

This later worsened due to terrorism.

It also notes that Partition turned Kashmir into a new security problem for the country, adding: 

“Since then, one of our neighbouring countries has been using this problem to put pressure on India in different ways.”

Separate versions have been designed for Classes 6-8 and Classes 9-12, outside of the regular textbooks.

The module refers to the 1940 Lahore Resolution, where Muhammad Ali Jinnah claimed that Hindus and Muslims belonged to “two different villages, philosophy, social customs, and literature.”

The module argues that the British initially sought to keep India united by offering dominion status, but Congress refused this proposal. 

GANDHI, PATEL AND NEHRU ON PARTITION

The module quotes Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as saying that the situation in India had become explosive: 

“India had become a battlefield and it was better to partition the country than to have a civil war.”

It cites Gandhi’s stance, noting that he opposed partition but would not resist Congress’s decision through violence. 

The text states: “He said that he could not be a party to the partition, but he would not stop Congress from accepting it with violence.”

The fact is Jawaharlal Nehru and Patel accepted partition. Gandhi later persuaded the Congress Working Committee on June 14, 1947, to also agree to partition.

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BLAME PLACED ON MOUNTBATTEN

The module strongly criticises Lord Mountbatten for 'advancing' the transfer of power. 

It says: “Mountbatten had announced June 1948 as the date of transfer of power but later preponed it to August 1947.”

It points out that the hasty demarcation of boundaries caused chaos: 

“In many places, people did not even know by August 15, whether they were in India or Pakistan.”

The clash over NCERT’s partition module has now turned into a fresh political flashpoint, with competing narratives about who was responsible for India’s division, and how India’s history should be taught in classrooms.

BJP spokesman Gaurav Bhatia says:

"It would not be wrong to say that Jinnah and Rahul (Gandhi) have similar thinking and both have become synonymous with each other.

We all know that the Partition of undivided India happened on the basis of religion, Jinnah's poisonous thinking and appeasement and Communalism ....are the same thoughts that are seen today in the fake Gandhi -- that is Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party".   

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