"In the end may I remind your honour to be so good as to go through the petition for clemency, that I had sent in 1911, and to sanction it for being forwarded to the Indian Government? The latest development of the Indian politics and the conciliating policy of the government have thrown open the constitutional line once more. Now no man having the good of India and Humanity at heart will blindly step on the thorny paths which in the excited and hopeless situation of India in 1906-1907 beguiled us from the path of peace and progress. Therefore if the government in their manifold beneficence and mercy release me,
I for one cannot but be the staunchest advocate of constitutional progress and loyalty to the English government which is the foremost condition of that progress. As long as we are in jails there cannot be real happiness and joy in hundreds and thousands of homes of His Majesty's loyal subjects in India, for blood is thicker than water; but if we be released the people will instinctively raise a shout of joy and gratitude to the government, who knows how to forgive and correct, more than how to chastise and avenge.
Moreover my conversion to the constitutional line would bring back all those misled young men in India and abroad who were once looking up to me as their guide. I am ready to serve the Government in any capacity they like, for as my conversion is conscientious so I hope my future conduct would be. By keeping me in jail nothing can be got in comparison to what would be otherwise. The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government?
Hoping your Honour will kindly take into notion these points.”
Says the true hero of organized Indian nationalism.
Text of Savarkar’s mercy petition to the British, The Milli Gazette,Vol.5 No.08, MG102 (16-30 Apr 04)
"Of all the war till now, the fall of Singapore affects most vitally the question of Indian defence. Nothing now can prove so effective a measure to counteract this defeatist shock and rouse the Indian people with war-like spirit to fight to a finish but a hold and an unambiguous proclamation on the part of the British government that India is granted forthwith co-partnership and status in every respect equal with other self-governing constituents including Great Britain herself, in an Indo-British commonwealth. Every functional step to nationalize the government in India to materialize this proclamation must; also be immediately and actually taken."
Says the person claiming to be our national hero for whom unconditional freedom was not much necessary but a mere dominion status was enough as it served his purpose of a Hindu majority India partitioned from Muslim majority NWFP, Punjab and Bengal. Ironically. he is warning the British for the immediate Japanese threat which was coming in the form of INA led by Netaji.
http://www.savarkar.org/content/pdfs/en/historic_statements_by_savarkar.v001.pdf
More proofs can be produced of such treachery, deception and lies. But why should I bother now? I have much important works to finish.
