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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...
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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.
Preparations. In May 1944, Nathuram Vinayak Godse attempted to assassinate Gandhi with a knife. He led a group of 15 to 20 young men who rushed at Gandhi during a prayer meeting at Panchgani. Godse and his group were prevented by the crowds from reaching Gandhi. He was released due to Gandhi's own policy of declining to press criminal charges. [12]
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.
On January 30, 1948, Nathuram Vinayak Godse assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in the compound of Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in central New Delhi. Fondly called as 'Bapu', Mahatma Gandhi was 78 when he was shot three bullets into the chest and abdomen at point-blank range.
Why Nathuram Godse assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. A lot of theories, records of court proceedings, and articles talk about the assassination but the exact reason has not been determined.
