Sardar Patel Drawing and Essay Competition

Sardar Patel Drawing and Essay Competition
सरदार पटेल चित्र और निबंध स्पर्धा ।  
સરદાર પટેલ ચિત્ર અને નિબંધ સ્પર્ધા

Hello friends, We are organizing “Sardar Patel Drawing and Essay Competition” for the children.
Any child whose age less than or equal to 20 can participate in the competition.
Send us a Drawing or Essay on theme “Sardar Patel”
Best Drawing will be posted on our Facebook page with Name & Drawing on 31st October, 2017 (Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Birth Anniversary). Prize will also be given to winners.
Please, go to the following link for registration:

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Last date for Registration is: 2nd October, 2017

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धन्यवाद मित्रो,
हम लेके आये है, “सरदार पटेल चित्र और निबंध स्पर्धा ।”
जिसमे २० साल तक के बच्चे भाग ले सकते है ।
“सरदार पटेल” विषय पर चित्र या निबंध हमें भेजिये ।
जो चित्र और निबंध श्रेष्ठ होंगे उनके नाम हमारे फेसबुक पेज पर ३१ ओक्टोबर, २०१७ (सरदार पटेल जयंति) को उनके चित्र या निबंध के साथ रखा जायेगा । विजेता को पुरष्कार भी दिया जायेगा ।
कॄपया नीचे दी गयी लिंक पर जाकर अपना रजिस्ट्रेशन किजीए ।

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रजिस्ट्रेशन करने की अंतिम तारीखः २ ओक्टोबर, २०१७

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સરદાર પટેલ ચિત્ર અને નિબંધ સ્પર્ધા

ધ્નયવાદ મિત્રો,
અમે તમારા માટે લઈને આવ્યા છીએ “સરદાર પટેલ ચિત્ર અને નિબંધ સ્પર્ધા”. જેમાં ૨૦ વર્ષ કે તેથી નીચેની ઉંમરના બાળકો અને કિશોરો ભાગ લઇ શકે છે.
“સરદાર પટેલ” વિષય પર ચિત્ર કે નિબંધ લખી અમને મોકલો.
જે ચિત્ર અને નિબંધ શ્રેષ્ઠ હશે તેમના નામ ૩૧ ઓક્ટોબર, ૨૦૧૭ “સરદાર પટેલ જયંતિ” પર પેજ પર જાહેર કરવામા આવશે અને વિજેતાઓ ને ઈનામ આપવામા આવશે.
નીચેની લિંક પર જઈને રજીસ્ટ્રેશન કરો.

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INDIAN NATIONALISTS DEMAND END OF BRITISH RULE

A crowd of 200,000, including 100 recently released and still uniformed members of the Japanese-sponsored Indian' National Army, attended the biggest public meeting ever held in Calcutta for  launching "I.N.A. Week" says the Calcutta correspondent of Reuters.

A portrait of the late Chandra Bose, who was a native of Calcutta surmounted the rostrum.

Pandit Nehru and Sardar Patel addressed the "crowd and took the salute when members of I.N.A. marched past.

Patel declared "We cannot tolerate a continuance of British power in India any longer. Foreign domination must end."

He told members of I.N.A. "The Congress Party has a place for you all, because of your remarkable courage and self sacrifice."

Pandit Nehru warned that sporadic violence would not pay. "If we are forced to adopt the way of violence, then it is for the nation to do it! deliberately, not casually," he said.

Architect of Swaraj - 7

It again fell to the lot of Patel as Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to raise funds, select candidates and to campaign for the election. In spite of his ill-health he undertook the task. As in 1937 Sardar proved himself equal to the task. The election results were a tribute to his organizing capacity. The Congress had been outlawed during the past three years and Jinnah had utilizing his genius, though negative to strengthen his party with the slogan "Islam in danger", "Congress is a Hindu Party." It was feared that Congress might not fare too well. But thanks to the efforts of Patel Congress won 91% of the general seats in the Central Legislature and a clear majority in eight provinces.

Prime Minister Attlee sent a Cabinet Mission to help India to attain her freedom as speedily and as fully as possible. To resolve the Congress-League differences a special Conference was called in Simla in which representatives of both the parties participated. The Congress was opposed to partition and the League insisted on it. Faced with a deadlock the Cabinet Mission its own proposal on May 16. 

The plan did not agree for the creation of Pakistan but still it appealed to the Muslim League for it provided for the States and the groups of States right of secession. And for that very reason Sardar Patel called the plan cumbersome and was rather unhappy about it. But still Congress accepted the plan. The League also accepted it but with reservation. When the time came for the formation of Interim Government, the Congress refused the concede the demand of the League to nominate all the Muslim members. Jinnah had hoped that if the Congress refused to form a Government he would be called to do so. But Wavell saw no point in forming a Government without the Congress and he dropped the idea of the formation of Interim Government. The infuriated Jinnah. He accused the British Government and announced in a mood of frustration that "Today we bid good bye to constitutional method." He fixed August 16 as "Direct Action Day".

In atmosphere of high tension, mutual distrust and communal riots, the Viceroy wanted to divest himself of responsibility and invited Jawaharlal Nehru, the President of the Congress, to form an Interim Government alone if Jinnah's co-operation was not forthcoming. Jinnah was furious at the way he had been snubbed. His prestige had gone down. But he was a shrewd man and tactfully he opened negotiations with the Viceroy and told him that the League was keen to join the Council. The Viceroy agreed and the five members of the League joined the Council on October 26th. The aim of these members was not to co-operate but to sabotage the Government from within. 

Even after joining the coalition Government League members continued to incite people to violence. The League supplied arms and weapons and serious riots broke out in Noakhali and Tipperah Districts on October 15. Plunder, destruction of property, murder and dishonoring of women were perpetrated on large scale. The Prime Minister issued a statement on February 20 which implied that the country would have to be partitioned unless Congress and the League united. 

Encouraged by Attlee's statement the League resorted once again with redoubled force to "Direct Action" in Assam and the Punjab. It was in this critical and frightful situation that Lord Mountbatten was sworn in as the new Viceroy on March 24, 1947. With the arrival of Lord Mountbatten things began to move fast. Even before his arrival Sardar Patel was convinced after working for about seven months with the League Ministers that partition was the only way out. 

Patel's reason for accepting partition were: "I agreed to partition as a last resort", said Sardar Patel, "When we should have lost all. Five Members of Muslim League had established themselves as Minister of the Interim Government with the sole object of partitioning the Country. We decided that partition should be agreed upon on the terms that Punjab and Bengal should be partitioned. I made further condition that in two months time power should be transferred and an Act should be passed by Parliament during that time guaranteeing that Britain would not interfere with the question of the Indian States. We will deal with the question.... Let paramountcy be dead."

TO BE CONTINUE…..

Courtesy : ARCHITECT OF SWARAJ

Page – 90-91

HYDERABAD CONTROVERSY TAKES A MORE POSITIVE FORM

Morarji Desai, Minister for Home Affairs in the Province of Bombay, looking through field-glasses into the State of Hyderabad from the neighborhood of Nanaj village, which has fallen into the hands of Indian forces. The dispute between Hyderabad and India, with implications just as serious as the India-Pakistan  dispute, seems at the time of writing to be entering upon a new and dangerous phase. Speaking in the Indian Parliament recently, Sardar Patel said that an independent Hyderabad, pursuing its own policies, would be a standing threat to the progress of India.

Courtesy : The Sphare 21st August 1948

TODAY THAT DAY : 09 August 1947

HISTORIC MOMENT IN INDIA

Overshadowed in the world at large by the gloom of the British economic drama, India in the coming week will stage exhibition of her own when Britain hands over supreme power and the Dominions of India and Pakistan assume responsibility for their own destiny.

The actual day of the formal transfer will be next Friday. It will be a momentous one in many ways. Not only will the future of India be committed to the hands of Indians themselves, but the peoples of this sub-continent will aspire to evolve their own system of parliamentary democracy. This in itself is of more than ordinary significance in a world which produce so many examples of totalitarian tendencies. But what is more surprising, perhaps in the sweep of this immense drama is that the turning-point has been reached in such an atmosphere of relative calm.

It is true that complex problems have yet to be resolved and that the magnitude of the task of evolving the machinery of two separate Governments may have been underrated; but it is a curious fact that nowhere is there any acute pessimism about the prospect.

In the debates on the Independence Bill in the British Parliament last month, there were some who expressed misgiving that such an early date had been set for the transfer of power. The critics implied that the decision was reckless and panicky. But they were quickly answered with the argument that the fixing of a date had been the most salutary single influence in  bringing the Indian leaders to their senses and developing a degree of responsibility. This may well be the historian's verdict. But it is equally true that now that Britain has fulfilled her word, and can no longer be the scapegoat for the ranting Indian Politician, there has been some tendency for what has been called fragmentation to appear.

Reports suggest that this may be the inevitable splitting of a people on sociological as distinct from racial and religious lines. Having achieve except for the Hindu-Moslem duality the larger goal of national independence, group now feel free to indulge heir political predilections.

Until now, fragmentation has been discussed in a different context. Fears have been expressed of the balkanisation of India deriving, first from the Hindu-Pakistan division, and secondly from the resolved status of the Indian princely States. It would be surprising if this problem were not to overshadow for the time being at least any sundering that may occur on ideological programmes.

There are 562 princely States, and so far only 22 of them have elected to join either the Dominion of India or the Dominion of Pakistan. The British Government having made up its mind to quit India, made it equally clear that in going it wished to leave no legacies of possible discontent. It therefore legislated for the renunciation of all claims to paramount power in the case of the Indian States, which were and still in effect are sovereign principalities within or closely associated with British India. But the Government at the same time stipulated that there would be no automatic transfer of its paramountcy in the States to either of the new Dominions; the States would have the right to opt to join either India or Pakistan. Lord Mountbatten is also on record as having said that the British Government will not recognise any Indian State as a separate Dominion. The Princes are therefore obliged to come to a decision.

It would be idle to deny that this is the most urgent of the immediate difficulties facing the two new Dominions. The problem is complicated in many cases by the simple fact that a Hindu prince rules a State which is predominantly Moslem, or vice versa. Therefore while one party may wish to join the Dominion of India the other leans to Pakistan.

Sardar Patel one of Nehru's Minister has setup a state Department designed to ease the process of amalgamation and has said that the Congress party has no desire to dominate the States or interfere in their domestic affairs. But there also exists the All India states people's conference sponsored by Congress, which with support in most states contests the right of any ruler to proclaim his independence. The New Delhi correspondent of The Times "said recently that because it has behind it a powerful "fifth column" among state subject, it is a force to be reckoned with. The same writer also says that many Congress leaders contend that the Princes have no survival value in the new India that they are anachronisms and mediaeval despots", who must vanish from the scene as soon as British power is withdrawn. He adds that these politicians are confident that, with public opinion and economic sanctions behind them. They can eliminate the Princes and absorb their territories into Hindustan. He asserts that the great majority of the Princes are eager to come to terms. The similar states known they are so vulnerable that they cannot survive except on sufferance.

This problem is therefore likely to be one which will take a foremost place after next Friday.

TODAY THAT DAY : 07 August 1948

Large-Scale Invasion Possible

From Colin Reid

"Daily Telegraph" & "The Scotsman" Correspondent

New Delhi - Friday - The position in the India-Hyderabad dispute to-night was that while the Nizam's Government and the Government of India were no nearer to common diplomatic ground, Indian troops were extending their operations in Hyderabad State territory.

Following their occupation last week of Nanaj. 40 miles north-west of Sholapur, on the Bombay Province border, the Indian army yesterday destroyed the Hyderabad Village of Yelsangi, 50 miles south-east of Sholapur, and today were dispersing bands of Razakars (State Volunteers.)

Further incursions by Indian troops on a much larger scale are feared unless the Nizam yields swiftly to the pressure of the Indian Government for unconditional accession. As the situation is developing, the conclusion of neutral observers is that each side is attempting to call the bluff of the other.

"INDEPENDENT" VILLAGES

The Madras office of the Hyderabad State Congress, which demands the State's accession to India, said today it had received reports from Aurangabad, North-West Hyderabad, that 83 villages in the area had declared their independence of the Nizam's rule and established local self-government.

To-night the Nizam informed Sir Mirza Ismail, his special emissary in New Delhi, that he declined to accept his advice to accede to India on the basis of the Mountbatten Monckton draft agreement of June 17. At the same time it was officially announced from Hyderabad that Nawab Zain Yar Joung, the Hyderabad Agent-General in New Delhi, at present Hyderabad communicating Sir Mirza Ismail's views to the Nizam, had resigned, and was returning with his successor to New Delhi tomorrow.

In New Delhi, were the intense loyalty of Nawab Zain Yar Joung to the Nizam is fully appreciated, there was a tendency to interpret this announcement as a security measure for the safe return from Hyderabad of the Agent-General, who is regarded as potential Prime Minister of the State.

With the whole diplomatic situation between India and Hyderabad still fluid and chaotic, apart from the military threat to Hyderabad, neutral observers are still awaiting a major gesture from either side.

Meanwhile, in view of the threat of grave communal issues arising between Moslems and Hindus over the India-Hyderabad quarrel, the Government of India is taking all security measures to prevent disorders in India's larger cities. Gurkha Rifles have been moved to Delhi and police pickets strengthened.

KASHMIR AND HYDERABAD

Critical Situations Facing Indian Government

As the first birthday (August 15) of the Dominion of India draws near, the Indian Government is confronted with situations of the most critical nature in Kashmir and Hyderabad.

With rain falling heavily and greatly intensified military opposition, the Indian Army in West Kashmir is doing no more than holding its own. They are up against particularly tough opposition in the Uri-Chakhoti sector where, it is stated, there is a concentration of Pakistan armed units complete with artillery batteries, armoured cars, and anti-aircraft defence.

The Indian Army has been unpleasantly surprised at the opposing forces sustained heavy artillery fire-power, and the casualties on both sides are believed to have been heavy. The forces on the other side appear to be continually reinforced, and although the Indian Defence Ministry claims that upto the present it has held its territory and thrown back all attacks, there seems little doubt that they now face a formidable defence and may even have to expect a counter-offensive.

On the northern front Indian forces have withdrawn from Macchoi, but claim to be stil in possession of the Zojila Pass, a few miles to the south-west. In the east, around Leh in the Ladakh region, there has recently been considerable infiltration by Azad troops. Heavy rain has caused continual breaches in the Indian Army's tenuous supply routes and even the new Pathankot-Jammu road is said to have been damaged. Forward supply dumps, however, are keeping the Indian army going.

In regard to Hyderabad, the Indian Government is firmly maintaining the attitude announced by Sardar Patel, the States Minister, recently at Patiala when he declared the accession was the only feasible course open to the NIzam - Copyright.

TODAY THAT DAY : 05 August 1930

ARRESTED INDIAN LEADERS

Magistrate's Bail offer Refused.

COMMUNAL RIOTS.

Judgment in the case of the Congress leaders, Mr. Vallabhbhai Patel and the Pandit Malaviya and others, who were arrested on Saturday and remanded until to-day, has been reserved until August 11.

Meanwhile, the accused remain under custody. The magistrates offered to release Mr. Patel and the Pandit Malaviya and the others accused if they would sign bail bonds, but in accordance with Congress Practice they declined the offer.

They replied to the magistrate's contention on Saturday that the communication addressed by Police commissioner Healy to Mrs. Hansa Mehta, President of the Bombay Congress Committee, was not, an order but merely a letter formulating a request that the procession should not enter the fort area.

The Crown prosecutor maintained to-day that the letter was a legal order. The prosecutor also contended that MR. Healy's verbal order given on the spot was also legal.

In addition to the five members of the Congress Working Committee, nine other members of Congress, three  of them women, including Miss Maniben Patel, the daughter of Mr. Vallabhbhai Patel, were also charged. - Reuter.

TODAY THAT DAY - 03 August 1942

Congress Will Go When India Attains Freedom - Mr. Patel

"Congress is prepared to give it in writing that it will be dissolved the moment that India attains freedom," said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, of the Congress Working Committee, addressing a meeting in Bombay to-day.

Once India was free Congress would have fulfilled its mission.

Congress did not seek power for itself, but would be satisfied if the country was handed over to the Moslem League, the Hindu Mahasabha or any other party.

Mr. Patel added that Congress had "offered the British Government its whole-hearted co-operation in prosecuting the war and had urged that the civil administration, including the production of war materials and the supply of personnel for the defence forces, should be handed over to it."

But the Government "did not want India's Co-Operation as a free partner. Under the circumstances Congress had reach the conclusion that British power should be withdrawn fourthwith."

Today That Day : 02-August-1946

 

DROP POLICY OF THREATS - Congress Chief's Advice to Jinnah

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, leading members of the Congress Working Committee, in a speech at Bombay advised Mr. Jinnah Moslem leader, to drop his and follow "the constructive path of co-operation."

It was the first Congress reaction to Mr. Jinnah's statement on Wednesday that Congress was organising "a mass civil disobedience struggle."

Mr. Jinnah's threatened "direct action" if it was real. Mr. Patel said, was aimed not at the British Government but at Congress because the British had already made it clear that they had no intention of staying in India.

Denying that Congress had concluded a secret deal with the British Cabinet, Mr. Patel said-"It was Mr. Jinnah who entered into a secret understanding and obtained promises behind the back of Congress. He wanted to form an interim Government without Congress, and failed in the attempt. That is why he is angry."