SUPPORT THE HINDUS OF NELLORE

29-10-1941
“I exhort the Hindus throughout the Madras Presidency to bring to bear on Government all legitimate pressure they can, to do justice to the Hindus at Nellore who are so bravely facing persecutions and sufferings to uphold the cause of civic and religious liberty of Indian citizenship in general and of Hinduism in particular. Let Hindu leaders and work¬ers from all parts of the Presidency visit Nellore in their hundreds and extend every legitimate, moral and material support to our brethren there. Let the whole press and plat¬form, whether Hindu, Christian or otherwise throughout the Presidency come out to support the cause of civic liberty which Nellore Hindus stand for. The case of the Nellore Hindus is a test-case of an All India significance. When law-courts proclaim that the cause of the Nellore Hindus is per¬fectly justified and legal and when the executive officers are openly defying these decisions of the law courts, it is incum¬bent on the Government of Madras and on His Excellency the Governor of Madras in particular as the head of the executive to call the subordinate officers to book, to give every protection to enable, the Hindus at Nellore to exercise their legal rights and to execute the decisions of the law courts. The arbitrary and even vindictive policy of the executive officers at Nellore which they profess to pursue to maintain peace and order is only calculated to put a premium on aggressive Moslem ‘goondaism’ and to make it impossible more than anything else the restoration of legitimate peace and legitimate order.”

Telegram to H.E. the Governor of Madras-

I URGE YOUR EXCELLENCY TO AFFORD PROTECTION TO THE NELLORE HINDUS TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS HELD UP EVEN BY LAW COURTS AS JUSTIFIED. NOTHING CAN ENDANGER JUSTICE, PEACE AND ORDER MORE DISASTROUSLY THAN ALLOW LOCAL EXECUTIVE TO FLOUT AND COMPEL LAW COURTS TO CONFESS THEIR HELPLESSNESS TO GET THEIR DECISIONS EXECUTED”.