Congress President Acharya Kripalani's 'Message to Bengal'

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Acharya Kripalani - President of the Congress Party, after his tour of
Noakhali wrote: "A MESSAGE TO BENGAL"

"I am clearly of the opinion that whatever the Government, Provincial or Central, may or may not do, every Bengalee(Hindu), male or female, has to defend himself or herself by whatever means he or she can think of. In this connection, I could keep before every Bengalee(Hindu) the example of Shri Rajendra Lal Roy and his family who defied a mob for full two days and fell fighting. Even as a believer in the absolute non-violence, I hold that the resistance offered by Shri Rajendra Lal Roy and his family, was the nearest approach to non-violence. "