TODAY THAT DAY : 09 FEBRUARY 1948
MOSLEM GUARD BANNED
It was announced to-day that the Moslem League National Guard has been declared unlawful throughout the Indian Dominion. It is alleged to have been "Secretly collecting arms, training its members in the use of arms, and fomenting agitation with members of an organisation across the border."
The militant Islamic organisation, whose members are known as Khaksars, has also been banned. It is roughly the equivalent of the Hindu extremist R. S. S. organisation.
Security measures have been tightened in Delhi. Armed guards being posted at the residences of all Ministers. The area in which Pandit Nehru and Sardar Patel, Deputy Premier, occupy neighboring houses resembles an armed camp.
TODAY THAT DAY : 08 FEBRUARY 1948
GANDHI FATALISTIC
Gandhi believed his life was in God's hands and that, if he had to die, no precautions would save him, the Times Delhi correspondent reports, quoting the Indian Home Minister (Sardar Patel)
Mr. Patel said on Friday that Gandhi had refused to allow searches to be made of persons visiting prayer meetings.
A purge of the whole party to "set its house orders" has been demanded in a New Delhi Congress Party working committee resolution.
The committee urges that a supreme effort to establish communal harmony should be made as a result of Gandhi's death, and that every individual in India should contribute 10 days income to establish a Gandhi National Memorial Fund.
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.
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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.
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