Friday, October 06, 2006

Nathu Ram Godse

After seeing my heading you might get antonised why I have written on Nathu Ram Godse.All we know him because he assisnated Mahatma Gandhi.I am trying to tell little bit about him.
Nathu Ram Godse was born on May 19 ,1910.He was born in aBrahimin family.His parents name were Vinayak Vaman Rao Godse andLakshmi.He was born at Baramati later he went to Pune for further study.But his father shifted to Ratnagiri , there he meet prominent leader of Hindutva Veer Sarvakar. He dropped out from school and become active member of Hindu Mahasabha. He openly opposed the Muslim League because due to the differencs of their ideology.He started Marathi paper named AGRANI later named HINDU RASHTRA.
Godse and his collegue differed from the ideology of Gandhi Ji.They thought that Gandhiji was pleasing minority group.He blamed him for the bloody partition of India in which many people died.The main reason which lead for the assination was that India government reversed his decsion to pay the with helded money of Pakistan.
Godse assassinated Gandhi on January 30 ,1948 approaching him during a public appearance, bowing, and shooting him at close range. The gun used by Godse was Beratta M1934 a semi-automatic pistol in .380 ACP caliber, serial number 606824.