Saturday, October 29, 2005

Murder attempts on Gandhi

I didn't know there had been a lot of murder attempts on gandhi, most by nathuram godse himself. So it wasn't just a killing in rage after partition. Its a pity that he wasn't arrested earlier but gandhi was lucky too that he survived all of the earlier once. This should also break the myth that gandhi was murdered sue to the partition. As tushar gandhi puts it

... Mahasabha as well as their off shoot the Rasthtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have always claimed that the Mahatma was murdered because he was partial to the Muslims, because he was responsible for the vivisection of India and because he forced the government of India to give Pakistan 55 Crores Rs (550 million). Apart from the last two attempts on 20th January 1948 and His murder on 30th January1948. Bapuji had not shown any alleged partiality towards Muslims, the country was not divided and there was no question of giving 55 Crores (Rs. 550 Million) to Pakistan. Yet the Hindu Mahasabha and the Godse Apte gang of murderers were hell bent on killing the Mahatma ...

All known murder attempts listed are also described on the site.