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  • Nathuram ​Godse’s photograph garlanded at Hindu Mahasabha event on Gandhi Jayanti

    By PTI

    GWALIOR: Photographs of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassins Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were garlanded at a seminar organized by the local unit of the Hindu Mahasabha here on Saturday.

    Speaking to reporters after the event held on Gandhi’s 152nd birth anniversary, a leader of the right-wing organization also blamed him for Partition.

    “We have nothing to do with Gandhi, but Gandhi and Mohammad Ali Jinnah were responsible for the partition of the country,” Hindu Mahasabha national vice president Jaiveer Bharadwaj said.

    “Partition led to the biggest genocide and more than 10 lakh Hindus were killed and another 50 lakh displaced. That is why Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte had resolved to kill Gandhi and Jinnah,” he said.

    While they assassinated Gandhi, they could reach Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, he said.

    The seminar on “Gandhi, and Hutatma (martyrs) Godse and Apte” was held at the Mahasabha’s office in Daulatganj area here.

    Photographs of Godse and Apte were garlanded and some workers shouted “Pandit Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte Amar Rahe (Long live Pandit Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte).”

    In January this year, the Mahasabha had opened a study centre on Godse at its office here but closed it two days later following intervention by the district administration.

    In 2017, the Mahasabha had installed Godse’s bust at the office which was seized by the district administration.

  • Hindu Mahasabha to undertake awareness campaign on Nathuram Godse, Narayan Apte

    By PTI
    GWALIOR: The Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha on Sunday said it would embark on a vehicle rally from here to Delhi on March 14 to inform people about the lives Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse and co- conspirator Narayan Apte.

    Notably, in January this year, the right wing group opened a study centre on Godse at its office here in Madhya Pradesh, but closed it two days later following intervention by the district administration.

    Now, the mahasabha has planned to take out a yatra from Daulatganj here on March 14 noon to disseminate information on Godse and Apte, the organisation’s national vice president Jaiveer Bhardwaj said.

    The organisation’s office-bearers would also try to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi on March 15, he said.

    “In a recent meeting of the mahasabha’s office- bearers, it was decided that time has come to reach out to young people and inform them about those behind the Partition of India, and atrocities committed on Hindus at that time,” he added.