Source: Hindusthan Standard, 8 September 1940, p 6

Full text of the letter written by P. R. Thakur to Chief Minister, Fazlul Huq, tendering his resignation from the Select Committee on Bengal Secondary Education, 1940:

You may remember that I had supported the motion for circulation of the Bill for eliciting public opinion thereon. But I did not decline to serve on the Select Committee as I thought that I might thereby help to offer constructive suggestions for improving the Bill which had admittedly many highly objectionable features. During the debate however I was greatly disillusioned specially by reason of your open declaration that if the Bill were not passed into law, you and your supporters would consider yourselves untrue to Islam. The apprehension of the opponents of the Bill based on communal considerations could not have been more fully substantiated than by this amazing admission on your part. It has also been noted that you and some other supporters of the Bill have been openly stating that only a small fraction of the Hindu community belonging to the Caste Hindus is opposed to the Bill which has the support of the Scheduled Castes. Let me tell you clearly that although we the Scheduled Caste members have welcomed the inclusion of some Scheduled Caste members as such on the proposed Board and the formation of a Scheduled Caste Education Committee, we are not at all oblivious of the grave danger which threatens the cause of the future of education in this province affecting the interests of all Hindus including Scheduled Castes, if the Bill is passed into law. The Scheduled Castes have suffered a lot in the past; but it is absolutely untrue to suggest that they want to regard themselves as outside the great Hindu community. They will be untrue to their religion and to the best interests of their country if they permit themselves to be treated as mere pawns in the hands of reactionaries such as controlled the destinies of the present Government whose only object is to see the Hindus divided and weakened as far as possible.

Please take note of the fact that our political activity is meant to make active the paralysed part of the Hindu community. Scheduled Castes can never think of separation from the Caste Hindus.