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Nehruvian

Jan 21 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

"Certainly I said that the present government is a tyrant. What else could I say? If I am convinced that this government is evil I cannot pray for its long life. . . .

(1/n).

Whatever attractive things may be done for those in bondage, slavery is after all slavery. I deem it my national, religious and human duty to liberate my country and my people from servitude.

(2/n).

The present government is a negation of the wish and will of millions of people. It justifies the barbarous general massacre of Jallianwalla Bagh. It does not consider it unjust that people should be made to crawl upon their bellies like beasts. . . .

(3/n) .

It does not desist from riding rough-shod over the Islamic Caliphate despite the persistent pleadings of 300 million human beings.

There is no city where I have not reiterated all the statements included in the two speeches filed against me.

(4/n).

. In fact I must admit that the previous speeches were even more definite, clear and categorical. In the speeches filed against me I had declared that the seed of freedom can never be nurtured until it is watered by violence and repression.

(5/n).

And the government has started watering it.When I ponder on the great and significant history of the convicts’ dock and find that the honour of standing in that place belongs to me today, my soul becomes steeped in thankfulness and praise of God."___ Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

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