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Jan 24, 2022 · On the evening of 30 January 1948, Nathuram Vinayak Godse shot Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi dead at point-blank range as India's most venerated leader emerged from a prayer meeting in the...
May 28, 2024 · Nathuram Godse was an Indian nationalist who was infamous for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi a revered leader in India’s struggle for independence. He committed this act on January 30, 1948, when he shot Gandhi three times in the chest during a multi-faith prayer meeting at Birla House in New Delhi.
Godse together with Narayan Apte made two unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi in 1944 before they succeeded the third time in 1948. [7] After the 1948 assassination, Godse claimed Gandhi favoured the political demands of British India 's Muslims during the partition of India of 1947.
To Godse, India was not being run by the force of public opinion, but by Gandhi's whims. Godse added that he admired Gandhi for his lofty character, ceaseless work and asceticism, and Gandhi's formidable character meant that his influence outside of the due process would continue while he was alive.
Jan 19, 2019 · Late in the afternoon of Jan. 30, 1948, Nathuram Godse walked up to Gandhi before a prayer service in New Delhi and shot him three times in the chest. With that, the great leader was dead, but the infamy of the man who killed Gandhi lives on to this day.
Jan 30, 2016 · In assassinating Gandhi, Nathuram gave his otherwise ordinary life a new meaning. This was perhaps the reason why he pleaded with the government not to show him mercy and send him to the...
Jan 3, 2023 · Mahatma Gandhi, the spiritual leader known as the “Great Soul of India,” was assassinated at the age of 78 by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948.
