17 साल की उम्र में एक खुदीराम बोस बिना अंग्रेजों से माफ़ी मांगे फांसी पर चढ़ गया l 17 साल की उम्र में एक अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी न सिर्फ माफ़ी मांगकर जेल से छूटा बल्कि अंग्रेजों की मुखबिरी की जिससे दो क्रांतिकारियों को फांसी हुई lदेश की आज़ादी की लड़ाई के समय अटल बिहारी बाजपेई ने अंग्रेजो की ओर से स्वतंत्रता संग्राम सेनानियो के खिलाफ अंग्रेजो को गवाही दी थी ।उनकी गवाही से भारत के क्रांतिवीर “लीलाधर बाजपेई” को फांसी की सजा भी हुई
Vajpayee don’t deserve Bharat Ratna, as it’s an award to acknowledge exceptional dedicated life span for welfare of country; Atal Bihari Vajpayee life was controversial with him being termed as traitor during freedom movement & even his prime ministerial tenure wasn’t outstanding.
- He released Masood Azhar Dreaded terrorist
- The speech he delivered on December 5 1992, in Ayodhya, he openly called to demolish the disputed Babri Masjid.
- He too wasn’t different from any of his companions from RSS, he spewed venom against Muslims during his infamous speech at Goa Conclave barely few months after 20002 Gujarat Riots.
This is what he said: “Wherever Muslims live, they don’t like to live in co-existence with others; they don’t like to mingle with others; and instead of propagating their ideas in a peaceful manner, they want to spread their faith by resorting to terror and threats.”
TWENTY-FOUR years after reports were first published about Atal Behari Vajpayee’s signed confessional statement to a magistrate during the Quit India movement in 1942, the BJP’s Prime Ministerial aspirant has confirmed in a tape-recorded interview with Frontline‘s Editor, N. Ram, that he did, in fact, make the statement in question, dated September 1, 1942, to the magistrate. The statement, which was recorded in Urdu – and Vajpayee makes it clear in the interview that he does not read Urdu – was signed by Vajpayee.
Atal Behari Vajpayee’s confessional statement taken down in Urdu and signed by him, and the magistrate’s note in English.
In 1942, Vajpayee, officially under 16, was already a dedicated and active member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and well versed with politics. The RSS as a movement had no association with the freedom struggle – choosing, ideologically and politically, not to oppose the British colonial authority. (See accompanying story in this investigation by Manini Chatterjee.) Frontline‘s investigation shows that against such a backdrop, contrary to the propaganda of the Sangh Parivar and his own bio-data summary, Vajpayee did not participate in the Quit India movement as a “freedom fighter” in his home village of Bateshwar. In his own characterisation recorded in the interview, he was “a part of the crowd” with no role to play in the militant events in Bateshwar of August 27, 1942 – other than going along with the crowd and witnessing the proceedings. “I related whatever I had seen,” he told Frontline about the nature of his confessional statement. “I did not speak against anybody – I did not claim that…whatever had happened was truly related by me.”
Frontline‘s investigation also found that, contrary to the allegations levelled against him, Vajpayee’s confessional statement was not used by the prosecution in Sessions trial No. 3/43 before the Special Judge, Agra. In fact, the copy of the judgment furnished to the press by Vajpayee makes it clear that his name did not figure in the trial at all. Thus, the political charge that he was a government “approver” in the 1942 case is untrue.
It is noteworthy that in confirming the authenticity of his signature (in English) on the Urdu statement, a copy of which was shown to him, Vajpayee has now authoritatively contradicted his lawyer, Dr N.M. Ghatate. In a letter, dated January 15, 1998, to the Editor of Frontline written “under instructions from Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee” (see facsimile of letter in accompanying box), the senior advocate had stated: “It is obvious that the documents enclosed with your letter are a total forgery and meant to malign Shri Vajpayee. This is further made obvious by the statement in the said document which reads ‘I have explained to Atal Behari son of Gauri Shankar.’ The name of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s father is (Late) Shri Krishnan Bihari Vajpayee. Please note that if these false statements, which you know are false, are used in your newspaper, you will be liable for civil and criminal action.”
Vajpayee, again contradicting his lawyer, confirmed in the Frontlineinterview that he had, in his confessional statement of September 1, 1942, given his father’s name as Gauri Shankar because “Gauri Shankar was his family name” and “the people in the village knew him as Gauri Shankar.”
He told Frontline‘s Editor that he was withdrawing Ghatate’s letter, and followed this up the same day with a faxed letter (see accompanying box) which stated: “The letter sent by my Advocate dated 15.1.98 may be treated as withdrawn.
ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1942, Atal Behari Vajpayee signed the following confessional statement – which had been taken down in Urdu, which he could not read – before S. Hassan, II Class Magistrate (his elder brother, Prem Behari Vajpayee, made a virtually identical statement):
My name: Atal Behari
Father’s name: Gauri Shankar
My caste: Brahman
Age: 20 years
Occupation: Student, Gwalior College
My address: Bateshwar, P.S. Bah, Distt Agra
On being asked by the Court “Did you commit an act of arson and cause damage? What have you to say in this regard?”, Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee made the following statement:
“On August 27, 1942, Ala was being recited in Bateshwar bazaar. At about 2 p.m. Kakua alias Liladhar and Mahuan came to the Ala and delivered a speech and persuaded the people to break the forest laws. Two hundred people went to the Forest Office and I along with my brother followed the crowd and reached Bateshwar Forest Office. I and my brother stayed below and all other people went up. I do not know the name of any other person, except Kakua and Mahuan, who was there.
“It seemed to me that bricks were falling. I could not know who was razing the wall to the ground but the bricks of the wall were certainly falling.
“I along with my brother started to go to Maipura and the crowd was behind us. The abovementioned persons forcibly turned out the goats from the cattle-pound and the crowd proceeded towards Bichkoli. Ten or twelve persons were in the Forest Office. I was at a distance of 100 yards. I did not render any assistance in demolishing the government building. Thereafter, we went to our respective homes.”
Signed: S. Hassan
1.9.42
Signed: Atal Behari Vajpai.
The statement was recorded under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). The magistrate appended the following handwritten note in English to the statement:
I have explained to Atal Behari son of Gauri Shankar that he is not bound to make a confession and that if he does so, any confession he may make may be used as evidence against him. I believe that this confession was voluntarily made. It was taken in my presence and hearing and was read over to Atal Behari who made it; it was admitted by him to be correct and it contains a full and true account of the statement made by him.
Signed: S. Hassan
Magistrate II Class
1.9.1942.
The complete excerpt can be read here- http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1503/15031150.htm
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