India’s Youth Will Build New Nation When British Quit – Patel
Hindustan Times – 07-04-1947
Karamsad, April 6
India
had become free. The British rulers had been driven away from the land as
easily as the farmer would scare away the birds from his farm, said Sardar
Patel, Home Minister Interim Government, in reply to an address of welcome
here.
An
address of welcome and a gold plate weighing 72 tolas with the bust of Sardar
Patel inset on a map of India engraved on the plate were presented to Sardar Patel
when he visited his home town after many years.
Replying
to the address, Sardar Patel said that his visit to Karamsad was not originally
planned when he left Delhi but the pressing invitation of his old friends when
he reached Ahmedabad was irresistible.
He
said that the four pillars of constructive programme on which Mahatma Gandhi wanted
to build a free India still remained incomplete. The eyes of other nations were
fixed upon India watching how a free India tackled her manifold problems. They were
anxious to see how successfully she was able to put her ancient message to the
world in action and put her own house in order.
CALL
TO YOUTH
The
experiment of village rehabilitation was now being conducted at Vallabhbhai Nagar
which he had opened. Sardar patel appealed to them to give their wholehearted
support to the institution. He said that the youth of the country would have to
shoulder the responsibility of reconstructing new India. He asked them to
beware of the activities of the Communists, who wanted to introduce class war
in the villages.
He
said that the British rulers had created in the country various forms of vested
interests which, with the exit of the British, would disappear. The task of
moulding the future order of things lay with the youth. They must understand
real problems and solve them in such a way that the memories of slavery might not
be revived. – A.P.I
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