When was gandhi assassinated

Gandhi ji was prescribed to go to Panchgani for rest, and it was here that a group of protesters started shouting anti-Gandhi slogans. Gandhi ji invited the leader of the group Nathuram for a discussion which the latter rejected.

Later on, during the prayer meeting, Godse was seen rushing towards Gandhiji with a dagger but was luckily tackled by Manishankar Purohit and Bhillare Guruji of Satara.

During the later investigation, Dr Sushila Nayyar revealed Nathuram Godse was detained by people at the ashram from reaching Gandhi and was found in possession of a dagger.

Another attempt to kill Gandhi ji was hatched when he was travelling by the train Gandhi special to Pune. It was during a meeting at Birla Bhavan that the conspiracy to yet again attack Bapu was hatched. They were supposed to throw a bomb at the podium and then shoot. But fortunately, the plan did not work as Madanlal was caught, and identified in time by Sulochona Devi. Latest News. T20 World Cup. And these proponents found it infuriatingly unacceptable that the Mahatma should invoke his moral authority to want to call a halt to the butchery at work right in the capital of independent India.

On January 12, , a day before he started his last fast to bring sanity and peace, a very sad Mahatma had observed at the evening prayer congregation:.

This is done while my own Vallabhbhai is the Home Minister of the Government of India and is responsible for maintaining law and order in the Capital. Vallabhbhai has not only failed to give protection to the Muslims, he light-heartedly dismisses any complaint made on this count.

I have no option but to use my last weapon, namely to fast until the situation changes. That fast and its moral rebuke were deeply provocative to the Hindu rashtra fringe. It was a time, remember, when Europe was passionately enamoured of fascism and its eager embrace of violence as the currency of political mobilisation. On the other hand, the Hindu rashtra ideologues, as has been argued, were inspired and emboldened by the rampant success the fascists had achieved in Germany and Italy.

It is this infatuation with violence that refuses to fade away, despite more than six decades of a constitutional order in independent India. The argument has been joined vigorously. The Nehruvian consensus is to be dismantled precisely because its preferred mode of political exchange is argument and persuasion.

Today we have a ruling clique that is in thrall of violence and its presumed curative influence in the society. New enemies are being invented and these have to be dealt with sternly, violently and coercively. ET Secure IT. Web Stories. Morning Brief Podcast. Economy Agriculture. Foreign Trade. Company Corporate Trends. Defence National International Industry. International UAE. Saudi Arabia. US Elections World News. Rate Story. Font Size Abc Small. Abc Medium. Abc Large.