"T have been reliably informed that a number of youths of the RSS...were able to inform Sardar Patel and Nehruji im the very nick of time of the Leaguers’ intended ‘coup’ oF September 10, 1947. whereby they had planned to assassinate all Members of Government and all Hindu officials and thou- sands of Hindu citizens on that day and plant the flag of ‘Pakistan’ on the Red Fort and then seize all Hind. “< _If these high-spirited and self-sacrificing boys had 0% given the very timely information to Nehruji and Patelji, there would have been no Government of India today, the whole country would have changed its name into Pakistan, tens ° Millions of Hindus would have been slaughtered and all the rest converted to Islam or reduced to stark slavery."
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Bhagwan Das
Bhagwan Das (12 January 1869 – 18 September 1958) was an Indian Theosophist and public figure. For a time he served in the Central Legislative Assembly of British India. He became allied with the Hindustani Culture Society and was active in opposing rioting as a form of protest. As an advocate for national freedom from the British rule, he was often in danger of reprisals from the Colonial government. He was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1955.
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