Which year was mahatma gandhi assassinated

The news of the assassination has had a profound effect throughout the world. Messages of sympathy have been sent by the King and the President of the United States and by many Premiers. The theme of all comment, whether by statesmen or by the common man, is the same - "a saint," "a giant among men," "irreplaceable.

Mahatma Gandhi was shot and killed this evening by a Hindu fanatic. He was walking from Birla House to the lawn where his evening prayer meetings are held and was several minutes late for the meeting. He was as usual, leaning on the shoulders of two grand-nieces, and when he approached the meeting a man dressed in a khaki bush jacket and blue trousers and standing within five feet of Gandhi greeted him with the customary Hindu salutation of namesteh - that is; with folded hands.

Gandhi smiled at him, and, according to one version, spoke to him. The man then whipped out a pistol from inside his pocket and fired three times at point-blank range. The bullets lodged in Gandhi's chest, stomach and groin. He raised his hands above his head in the same salutation as he fell. But, such was his profound selflessness, that even while facing the death risks, he was anxious about the safety of others. In the Birla House, later known as Gandhi Smriti, Father of the Nation was assassinated when he was 79 years of age on January 30, While almost all of us are aware that it was Nathuram Godse who had carried out the murder, do you know that that there were prior five assassination attempts on Bapu?

According to the archived evidences, it was in Pune when Gandhi ji had arrived to deliver a speech, that the conspirators had bombed a car presuming Bapu was in it. Out of the five attempts, Godse was involved in three.

It was in Panchgani when Gandhi ji was advised to rest that a group of protesters created a ruckus mouthing anti-Gandhi slogans. After all, his murder cannot be allowed to go in vain.

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