'Gandhi did not utter a word after being shot'
Mahatma Gandhi neither uttered the widely believed "Hey Ram" nor the recently claimed "Ram... Ram" after he was shot from close range by Nathuram Godse, a former aide of the Father of the Nation claims.
By PTI |
CHENNAI: Mahatma Gandhi neither uttered the widely believed "Hey Ram" nor the recently claimed "Ram... Ram" after he was shot from close range by Nathuram Godse, a former aide of the Father of the Nation claims.
The death also came as the final blow to an already "disillusioned Gandhi", Kalyanam Venkitaraman (85), Gandhiji's then personal assistant says.
"I was standing hardly half-a-metre from him when Nathuram Godse pumped five bullets into Gandhi, with one piercing his body. He fell down immediately and never uttered a word," he said, recalling those tragic moments.
Ironically, the police did not inquire people, including him, who were nearby Gandhi when he was shot.
"Somebody claimed he had heard Gandhi uttering Ram... Ram, which was filed in the FIR.. but the truth is that not one word was uttered. For, how can one do so when he is shot at from such a short range?" Venkitaraman, who worked with Gandhi from 1943 till his death in 1948, asked.
"He died a disheartened, disillusioned and disappointed man," Venkitaraman said.
The communal clashes in the country had already saddened Bapu, leading to his death being filled with "disillusionment and disappointment", he said.
'Gandhi did not utter a word after being shot'
The death also came as the final blow to an already "disillusioned Gandhi", Kalyanam Venkitaraman (85), Gandhiji's then personal assistant says.
"I was standing hardly half-a-metre from him when Nathuram Godse pumped five bullets into Gandhi, with one piercing his body. He fell down immediately and never uttered a word," he said, recalling those tragic moments.
Ironically, the police did not inquire people, including him, who were nearby Gandhi when he was shot.
"Somebody claimed he had heard Gandhi uttering Ram... Ram, which was filed in the FIR.. but the truth is that not one word was uttered. For, how can one do so when he is shot at from such a short range?" Venkitaraman, who worked with Gandhi from 1943 till his death in 1948, asked.
"He died a disheartened, disillusioned and disappointed man," Venkitaraman said.
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The communal clashes in the country had already saddened Bapu, leading to his death being filled with "disillusionment and disappointment", he said.
'Gandhi did not utter a word after being shot'
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