On the last ‘Gandhi Jayanti’ day (2 October, 2021), messages were floated in social media praising Nathuram Godse, the killer of Gandhi, by many Indians. The incident attracted criticism from predictable corners. But after seventy-three years of Gandhi’s death, a section of Indians was no longer shying away in praising Godse publicly. That section of Indians always existed, who thought that Gandhi was rightly killed by Godse. No one was sure if that section of Indians was small or large. But change in the narrative was visible.
As per Oxford dictionary, ‘Terrorism’ is the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to inculcate fear. Terrorism is intended to coerce or intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.
If that be so, all Hindus and Sikhs of Indian Punjab after 15 August 1947, who got engaged in communal riots, were the first batch of terrorists in Independent India. If hundreds of people of one religion were killed by people of other religions in independent India during post 15 August 1947, then Gandhi, Nehru and Baldev Singh et al were also the first batch of politico-intellectual perpetrators of terrorism in independent India.
It is funny that Congress-Communist-Islamist gang and Lutyens media of India now distort the history and find extreme pleasure in labeling Nathuram Godse as first terrorist of independent India. Crypto-Christian Kamal Haasan has also joined the bandwagon. Nobody knows as to why Congress government did not conduct post mortem of the body of Gandhi. Congress government also never published the report of ‘Kapur Commission’ it constituted to examine the conspiracy behind the murder of Gandhi. Was that due to the fact that, first group of political terrorists of independent India, who were at the helm of power on 30 January 1948, had many things to hide?
It was for sure that no Muslim would have ever killed Gandhi, as Gandhi never talked or did anything, in his long political career, against Muslims. He also even accepted the demand of Pakistan. Gandhi rather pampered and supported all misdeeds of Muslim continuously. The love of Indian Muslims towards Gandhi in independent India has been their political posture. Had they were so Gandhi lovers, there would not have been any partition of India.
Dr Ambedkar was among those who saw some positive coming out of Gandhi’s death. About a week after the assassination, when much of the nation was still in shock and mourning, Ambedkar discussed Gandhi’s death in a letter, “As the Bible says that sometimes good cometh out of evil, so also I think good will come out of the death of Mr Gandhi. It will release people from bondage to supermen, it will make them think for themselves and compel them to stand on their own merits”.
Dr Ambedkar, like Jinnah, always addressed Gandhi as Mr. Gandhi and not ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi. In his 1955 BBC interview, Dr Ambedkar had pulled down Gandhi from his superman pedestal and exposed Gandhi as wily and crook politician, who was for mysterious reasons glorified by Western press. Dr Ambedkar never supported Godse overtly, but was possibly relieved to see that Godse, by killing Gandhi, had actually released Hindu Indians from the bondage of regressive, delusional and destructive Mahatma.
The bottom line is if Godse was a terrorist, so were Khudiram Basu, Binoy Basu, Surya Sen, Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad et al. While the later violently fought against British colonialism, the former killed the perpetrator of self-loathing, apologist, timid and passive Hindu Indian psyche.
