NO IMPASSABLE BARRIERS

Under the Cabinet Mission Plan and the Statement of June 3, 1947, the States were left free to decide their future through negotiations with the Indian Union. To facilitate settlement with the States, the Government of India decided to constitute a separate States Department. On the 5th July, 1947, when this States Department was set up, Sardar Patel, Minister for the newly created Department issued this statement of policy governing the States.

TODAY THAT DAY : 07 FEBRUARY 1948

GANDHI DIED POOR

Possessed No Property

London Feb, 6 - Devadas Gandhi said to-day that his father, Mahatma Gandhi possessed no property and left no will says the Associated Press correspondent in New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi desired that any properties nominally his should go to charity and projects for the uplift of India.

The Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Sardar Patel told Parliament that Gandhi rejected his entreaties that people visiting his prayer meetings should be searched. "Every precaution was taken to protect Gandhi except this search and the assassin exploited the weak spot." Mr. Patel said.

According to a British United Press report from New Delhi, the police said to-day that 1100 Hindu extremists had been arrested throughout India since Gandhi's assassination.

A mob in Jubbulpore forced the editor of the weekly newspaper to drink from a gutter because he was alleged to have written anti Gandhi articles.

Reuter's Madras correspondent says that the Provincial Government has suspended nine communal organisations in addition to the R. S. S. (Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh)

DHARMA PARIVARTAN

દેશમાં ધર્મપરિવર્તન વ્યક્તિઓનું નહિ સમુદાયોનું થાય છે, બળજબરીથી થાય છે, ત્રાસ વર્તાવવામાં આવે છે. ખોટી લાગવગ થાય છે. છોકરાઓને વટાળવામાં આવે છે.

TODAY THAT DAY : 04 FEBRUARY 1939

GANDHI ACCUSES POLICE

By Our Own Correspondent, BOMBAY FRIDAY

"Organised hooliganism" by police of the Indian Government's political agency is alleged to-day by Mr. Gandhi.

He says that civil resisters in the small State of Rajkot have been taken to distant places on the State boundry, stripped and beaten, and then left to make their way home.

He also says that Red Cross doctors and ambulance parties were prevented from attending those injured following a lathi (Stave) charge in Halenda village.

Mr. Gandhi holds that the British Resident in Rajkot is responsible for the present strained relations between State's ruler, the Thakore Sahib, and his people.

He appeals to the Viceroy to study the situation deeply.

To-day Mrs. Gandhi and Miss Maniben Patel, daughter of Mr. Vallabhbhai Patel were arrested in Rajkot. Both were taken by car to an unknown destination though it is regarded as probable that they are being escorted back to British India.

Mr. Vallabhbhai Patel, speaking in Bombay to-day, accused the British Government to setting up the Princes to fight Congress, while making pompous statements in the British Parliament about non-interference in the Prince's relations with their subjects.

DOSH

ભગવાન ક્યારેય કોઈને બીજાના દોષોને માટે સજા કરતો નથી. દરેક માણસ પોતાના જ દોષે દુ:ખી થાય છે. આપણા દુ:ખ માટે તો આપણા પાપ જવાબદાર છે.

STREESHAKTI

સ્ત્રી જેટલી શક્તિ તો પુરુષોમાં પણ નથી. સ્ત્રીઓની સહનશક્તિ ઘણીજ હોય છે. સ્ત્રીઓએ તો પુરુષોમાં પણ શક્તિ પૂરી છે. 

VAFADARI

નાલાયક અને બીકણ પ્રજાની વફાદારીમાં માલ નથી. નીડર અને સ્વમાન જાળવનારી પ્રજા જે વફાદારી બતાવે છે તે જ પ્રજા સરકારને શોભા આપનારી છે.

Ashprushyata

અસ્પૃશ્યતા એ હિંદુ ધર્મ ઉપર કલંક છે. એ ધર્મને બહાને ચાલતો ઢોંગ છે. એને આપણે નાબૂદ કર્યે જ છુટકો છે. ઢેઢ-ભંગીનો તિરસ્કાર કરી આપણાં કર્મનાં ફળ આપણે ભોગવીએ છીએ.

TODAY THAT DAY : 31 JANUARY 1948

Unforgettable Scenes as Martyr's Body Burns..
Mr. Gandhi's Son Devadas was in the Center, SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL the Deputy Prime Minister, was behind Pandit Nehru.