In spite of their overwhelming majority in India, in spite of the consciousness that it is they who have borne the brunt of the fight, struggled single-handed down to this day while the other non-Hindu sections and especially the Mohammedans who are nowhere to be found while the national struggle goes on and are everywhere to be found in the forefront at the time of reaping the fruits of that struggle-in spite of all this the Hindus are willing to form a common united Indian Nation and do not advance any special claims,privileges or rights reserved only for themselves over and above the non-Hindu section in Hindusthan
Let the Indian State be purely Indian.Let it not recognize any invidious distinctions whatsoever as regards the franchise,public services, offices,taxation on the grounds of religion and race.Let no cognizance be taken whatsoever of man's being Hindu or Mohammedan, Christian or Jew.Let all citizens of that Indian State be treated according to their individual worth irrespective of their religious or racial percentage in the general
population.Let that language and script be the national language and script of that Indian state which are understood by the overwhelming majority of the people as happens in every other state in the world, i.e.,in England or the United States of America and let no religious bias be allowed to tamper with that language and script with an enforced and perverse hybridism whatsoever.Let 'one man one vote' be the general rule irrespective of caste or creed,race or religion. If such an Indian State is kept in view the Hindu Sanghatanists will, in the interest of the Hindu Sanghatan itself, be the first to offer their wholehearted loyalty to it.I for one and thousands of the Mahasabhaites like me have set this ideal of an Indian State as our political goal ever since the beginning of our political career and shall continue to work for its consummation to the end of our life.Can any attitude towards an Indian State be more national than that ?
Justice demands that I must plainly proclaim that the mission and policy of the Hindu Mahasabha with regard to an Indian state have been more national than the present-day policy of Indian National Congress itself.
The Hindus ask nothing more than what is their due as Indian citizens on the special plea that they are Hindus or that they from the majority of the Indian population, over and above the other non-Hindu sections of their countrymen.Are the Mohammedans ready to join such a truly national Indian State without asking any special privilege, protection or weightage on the fanatical ground that a special merit attaches to them of being Mohammedans and not Hindus ?
