Yesterday, as I watched Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak in Guwahati, I felt a strange mix of emotions—vindication, relief, and a deep sense of historical justice.

For decades, the “Secular” establishment has tried to bury the uncomfortable truths of our partition history. But when PM Modi stood on the soil of Assam and declared that the Congress party had committed a sin by nearly handing Assam over to Pakistan, he wasn’t just making a political statement. He was ripping the bandage off a wound that has festered for 75 years.

He spoke the ultimate truth: The Congress leadership was ready to sacrifice Assam.

As someone who has spent years researching the life of Veer Savarkar for my books in Tamil (especially Veer Savarkar: Oru Kalagakkaranin Kathai), this moment felt personal to me. I have lived with these documents and historical accounts for years, often wondering when these truths would finally reach the common man.

The Great Betrayal: Congress Was Ready to Gift Assam to Pakistan

Many of us today take the map of India for granted. We assume Assam was always going to be ours. But in 1946, the situation was terrifyingly different.

The British Cabinet Mission Plan had proposed grouping provinces, and Assam was placed in Group C, tied directly to Muslim-majority Bengal. Let’s be blunt about what this meant: The Congress High Command was ready to move Assam to Pakistan directly.

They treated the land of the Ahoms as a disposable asset. To secure a quicker transfer of power for themselves in Delhi, Nehru and the Congress leadership had essentially agreed to this grouping. They were willing to throw Assam to the wolves.

It was Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi who stood up. He revolted against his own party’s high command. He fought tooth and nail, with the backing of Mahatma Gandhi (who, to his credit, supported Bordoloi against Nehru on this specific issue), to save his land. If not for Bordoloi’s rebellion, the map of East Pakistan would have swallowed the entire Northeast, and Assam would be a foreign country today.

The Chilling Reality of “Khilji Dastas”

While writing my books on Savarkar, I delved deep into the mechanics of how the Muslim League operated in the 1940s. They weren’t just relying on politics; they were relying on demographic aggression.

The Muslim League organized bands of infiltrators to invade Assam’s lands. But look at the name they chose for these squads: “Khilji Dastas.”

This name was not chosen at random. It was a deliberate psychological attack. They named their infiltration squads after Bakhtiar Khilji-the same barbaric invader who destroyed the ancient Nalanda University, burning millions of manuscripts and plunging Indian knowledge systems into darkness.

The same Bakhtiar Khilji had later tried to conquer Assam (Kamrup) but was brutally defeated by the Assamese forces. By naming their squads after him in the 1940s, the Muslim League was sending a clear message: We are here to finish what Khilji started. They wanted to burn the indigenous culture of Assam just as Khilji burnt Nalanda.

What My Research on Savarkar Revealed

While writing my books on Savarkar, I stumbled upon details regarding Assam that sent shivers down my spine. We often paint Savarkar only as a revolutionary in London or a prisoner in Andaman, but his role as a geopolitical visionary is where his true genius lies.

Veer Savarkar was the first national leader from outside the Northeast to explicitly warn Assam about the demographic invasion.

In 1941, Savarkar visited Assam. He didn’t mince words. He saw the “Line System” failing. He saw what the Muslim League was doing. They weren’t just migrating; they were invading using what they called “Khilji Dastas”—bands of infiltrators named after Bakhtiar Khilji, the invader who had tried to conquer Assam centuries ago.

Savarkar implored the Assamese people: “You must take inspiration from your own history. Remember the Ahom rulers? They defeated the Mughals 17 times. You must show that same spirit against these infiltrators.”

Veer Savarkar was the first national leader to catch this signal. In 1941, he visited Assam and implored the people: “You must take inspiration from your own history. Remember how your ancestors defeated Khilji? You must show that same spirit against these new ‘Khilji Dastas’.”

The Clash: Nehru vs. Savarkar

There is one specific historical exchange I included in my book that perfectly captures the difference between the Congress mindset and the Hindutva mindset.

When concerns were raised about the massive influx of Muslims from East Bengal into Assam, Pandit Nehru dismissed it with a pseudo-intellectual biological metaphor. He famously said, “Nature abhors a vacuum,” implying that since Assam had empty land and Bengal was crowded, migration was natural and inevitable. He justified the infiltration.

Savarkar’s reply to Nehru was chilling and sharp. He retorted:

“Pandit Nehru’s knowledge about the environment is very poor. He should know that nature also abhors poisonous gas.”

Savarkar understood that this wasn’t just “migration”-it was a civilizational threat. It was a silent conquest.

The Sin Continues

PM Modi was right to say the Congress’s sin wasn’t just a one-time event in 1947. It was a continuous policy. My research showed that after Partition, many Muslim League leaders in the region simply donned the Khadi cap, joined the Congress, and continued their infiltration project from the backdoor. The Congress allowed it for vote banks. They traded national security for ballot papers.

Today, when I see the demographic changes in certain districts of Assam, I realize how prophetic Savarkar’s warnings were in 1941. And when I see PM Modi taking a stand-whether through fencing the borders, the NRC, or honoring Gopinath Bordoloi, I see a leader who is finally correcting the historical blunders that nearly cost us the Northeast.

Writing about Savarkar in Tamil was an attempt to bring these hidden chapters to my people. Hearing the Prime Minister echo these very sentiments on the national stage confirms one thing: Truth can be suppressed, but it cannot be defeated.