Why Nathuram Godse killed Mahatma Gandhi?

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In a frightening occurrence on January 30, 1948, Nathuram Godse entered Mahatma Gandhi's prayer meeting in Delhi without being searched and immediately opened fire, murdering the nation's father who said "Hey Ram" as his final words. The most revered leader in India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was murdered by the nationalist Nathuram Vinayak Godse. This article will go over Nathuram Godse's life, his motivation for killing Mahatma Gandhi, his trial, and the controversy surrounding it. So let's get going.

Who was Nathuram Godse?

The 38-year-old activist was a right-wing Hindu Mahasabha member. He accused Gandhi of deceiving Hindus by being too cooperative towards Pakistan & pro-Muslim. Gandhi was even blamed for the bloodshed resulting in the partition of India into two dominions- the Republic of India & Pakistan, after independence in 1947.

What happened to the Nathuram Godse family?

Godse belonged to a Konkani Brahmin family in Baramati, Pune (Maharashtra); inspired by the nationalist ideals, he joined the Hindu Mahasabha and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which was the ideological architect of India's ruling party BJP. Nathuram joined as a ground-level worker of RSS and later became the editor of a Marathi daily known as Agrani- Hindu Rashtra, in which Hindu Mahasabha leader 'Vinayak Damodar Savarkar' invested. After engaging in a dispute with RSS, he formed a separate Hindu nationalist organization known as “Hindu Rashtra Dal”.

What happened to Nathuram Godse?

Nathuram Godse was given a death sentence on November 8, 1949, by the trial court after the High Court upheld the decision. An accomplice, Narayan Apte, was also given the death sentence, and six others were sentenced to life in prison. Godse's hanging was executed on November 15, 1949. Nathuram Godse, in his statement, said that he was sad about Gandhi’s support for the Muslims and blamed him for India’s partition.

Nathuram Godse last words

He also felt that “Indian politics in the absence of Gandhi would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and would be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would be totally ruined. Still, the nation would be saved from the inroads of Pakistan.”

The trial of Nathuram Godse

• Godse was never guilty of his crime, instead, he believed that he saved the nation. He gave a 150-point statement claiming that Gandhi was the ‘Father of Pakistan’ instead of ‘Father of nation’.
• To "try" the accused in the Gandhi murder, a special court was established inside the Red Fort. Eight people were found guilty in the subsequent murder trial, including Nathuram Godse and his accomplice Narayan Apte.
• On November 15, 1949, Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were executed by hanging for the murder of The Father of the Nation.
• Nathuram Godse was quoted during the court case as saying:

"I do say that my shots were fired at the guy whose policies and action had brought misery and destruction to millions of Hindus," said the assassin.

Although I have no personal grudge for any particular person, I must admit that the current administration's stance was unfairly favorable to Muslims, and as a result, I had little regard for them. However, I could also see that Gandhi's presence was the only thing responsible for the policy.

• One-fifth of the world's population, or almost 300 million Hindus, would naturally be free and well-off if their freedom and legitimate interests were to be secured.
• But even after his conviction, Godse maintained his innocence. However, Godse's claims make no logical sense logically, and to some, they may merely reflect his animosity toward the secular point of view Gandhi used to follow.
• Godse blamed Gandhi for separating the country into India and Pakistan and blamed him for providing Muslims with numerous unfair benefits. But if we adopt this viewpoint, we would inevitably come to the conclusion that anything beneficial to Muslims would be harmful to Hindus.
• Before the 1975 release of their book, "Freedom At Midnight," Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins conducted a thorough research.
• The 1975 book brought out many details about how the plot to kill Gandhi was conceived. The information provided in the book further demonstrates that Gandhi's murder was the result of a carefully thought-out plot to remove Gandhi from India's political landscape.

CONTROVERSIES AROUND NATHURAM GODSE

In 2010, the Indian National Congress produced a book commemorating the 125th anniversary of the party's founding under the title "Congress and the Making of the Indian Nation," in which Godse's affiliation with the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS was detailed in relation to Gandhi's assassination. Responding to this, the RSS vehemently objected via a representative named Ram Madhav, who asserted that Godse had left the RSS in the middle of the 1930s, much before Gandhi was assassinated. Godse's family disputes this assertion, though. Therefore, the RSS claimed that there was no connection with Godse after five decades had passed since Mahatma Gandhi's murder.

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