Speedy justice

          How can it be realized ? 

        Once Julius Caesar went to sea but was captured by the pirates who demanded a ransom of   20 crowns , Caesar said to them , “ You are mistaken in demanding such a small amount from me “

      So, he paid them 50 crowns and got release but told them that he would return and execute them all .

   He went to his capital, collected army and attacked the piratesw, captured them all alive, held a court on the ship and executed them all there and there  !

    No  other King or Dictator has been so much swift in  delivering  justice  !

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                  When Gandhi failed to rise to the occasion

          The place was Nagpur,  the year   1920  ,    93 years ago. 

 The venue was Nagpur, where Congress Adhiveshan  was being held.

The sequence of events was like this .

Gandhi brought a Resolution  in the Subjects Deliberation Committee demanding full scale Independence.. Mohammad Ali Jinna was not agreeable to this demand and stressed the necessity  that before accepting the reins of power , the people and the leaders should be moulded and  educated in the art of democracy., and only there after the Britishers should be told to leave India.

But Gandhi and other Congress leaders were not ready to  accede to Jinna’s proposal. Then Gandhi presented his Resolution in the Plenary Session of the Party.

    As expected M. Jinna  got up to oppose this Resolution and climbed the platform. . The Congress delegates  started booing Jinna and shouted slogans  like :  “ shame , shame , cheater  cheater “ Jinna began his speech  in the din of the shouts , but the audience was  not  ready to listen to him.  

      Jinna spoke, “ The Resolution moved by Mr. Gandhi …. “

      The audience objected to  Gandhi being referred to as “ Mr. Gandhi “ and demanded of Jinna that he address Gandhi as “ Mahatma Gandhi “

 Jinna again spoke      “ Mr. Gandhi’s Resolution   .. “

Again there was uproar against the word “ Mr. Gandhi  “

     Jinna was equally  agitated  and he dropped the reference “ Mr. Gandhi “ and started speaking plainly  “  Gandhi’s Resolution “

     The Congress delegates were infuriated on hearing the word “ Gandhi “ as they were all habituated  to hear of Gandhi as “ Mahatma Gandhi “ only  !

     The delegates shouted , “ No, No , speak  Mahatma Gandhi “

    

          At this juncture, like the  Field  Marshal   Caulaincourt  , Jinna  uttered some divine like prediction  ,  “ At this time the destiny of India is  in the hands of two men , one of them is Gandhi …………………I can see that Gandhi has majority in this session, I appeal to Gandhi to stop this din before it is too late.”

       But there was no response from Gandhi, he remained unmoved  silent and seemed to enjoy the predicament of Jinna . Along with him , the other  Congress leaders also  kept mum and did nothing to stop the din or to appeal to the delegates to listen to Jinna. The convention had turned into a crowd and cat-calls , abuses, insults  from the crowd continued unabated.  

       Yet M. Jinna stood his ground on the platform alone  His courage was praise worthy .    

         M. Jinna  ,exhausted  and   humiliated ,  got down    from the rostrum  . He was so much shocked  and depressed that for months he withdrew within himself .

         He studied the history , sociology and mass psychology of the people of India and came back to politics  to complete the unfinished  sentence  “ The destiny of India is in the hands of two men , Gandhi is one of them    …….” the other man was Mohammad Ali Jinna himself.     

           The seeds of Pakistan were sown in the land of RSS strong hold , Nagpur.  

            He had come prepared with the plans of division of the country , India was bifurcated into two countries 1. Bharat and 2. Pakistan.The history and geography were changed on 15^th August 1947 and M. Jinna  became  Governor General of Pakistan and then the President of Pakistan.

           It seems the stand of Jinna as regards lack of democratic spirit in the people and leaders , particularly of Congress who was destined to become Ruling Party  for decades was correct .

          Gandhi and other Congress leaders had lost a golden opportunity of keeping India undivided, on this fateful day of 1920 in Nagpur. More over ,  Nagpur is the seat of Hindu Orthodoxy, RSS . When Dr. B R Ambedkar shirked Hinduism and embraced Budhdhism  in 1956 , it was again in Nagpur.