WHY I KILLED GANDHI!!! - NATHURAM GODSE 'S
My grand ma always told me that one must listen to other man 's view,
even if he is a known devil. For all you know, he might spill out the
pearls of wisdom you were looking for. Therefore, I might not agree with
the gentleman who sent me this mail because I am not enthusiastic
about religion but I would like to see on the other side of the hill.
I as much abhor HINDU ZEALOTS as I do the MUSLIM EXTREMISTS
OR CHRISTIAN and SIKH RADICALS.
To me religion is an
outlandish concept of explaining human phenomenons which can not be
explained by science and logic or should I say which are beyond the
human mind. To me, GOD is there but HE lives within you---we are all
with some fractions or elements of gods in us---therefore searching for
GOD in the PALATIAL BUILDINGS called TEMPLES, MOSQUES, CHURCHES and
GURDWARAS and what have you, is not my way of looking at a religion.
All I am saying is that before you brand me as a HINDU ZEALOT
because I am talking about NATHU RAM GODSE, you better be
warned that it would expose your mental bankruptcy. It shows as to how
irrational your mind has become because years of falsehoods dumped on us
on WHY GANDHI WAS KILLED.
This is an
interesting Mail , I got. It was great to know the mind of
NATHU RAM GODSE and why he resorted to extreme action. Here I
do not agree with him but whatever he has said about GANDHI and the
CONGRESS PARTY including NEHRU----is worth pondering about. They sure
got the independence but only to ensure their dynasties take over from
where BRITISHERS left us. Gandhi might not have propped up his own
children but he sure imposed on us NEHRU DYNASTY which continues to
take India towards disaster.
Therefore, do read this mail and formulate your own conclusions. Read on:-
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Gandhiji Assassin: Nathuram Godse's Final Address to the Court.
Nathuram Godse was arrested
immediately after he assassinated Gandhiji, based on a F. I.. R.
filed by Nandlal Mehta at the Tughlak Road Police station at Delhi . The
trial, which was held in
camera, began on 27th May 1948 and concluded on 10th February 1949. He
was sentenced to death. An appeal to the Punjab High Court, then
in session at Simla, did not find favourable and the sentence was
upheld. The statement that you are about to read is the last made by
Godse before the Court on the 5th of May 1949.
Such was the power and eloquence of this statement that one of the judges, G. D. Khosla, later wrote, "I have, however, no doubt that had the audience of that day been constituted into a jury and entrusted with the task of deciding Godse's appeal, they would have brought a
verdict of 'not Guilty' by an overwhelming majority"
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WHY I KILLED GANDHI?
Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I
instinctively came to revere Hindu religion, Hindu history, and Hindu
culture. I had, therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole.
As I grew up I developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any
superstitious allegiance to any isms, political or religious. That is
why I worked actively for the eradication of untouchables and the caste
system based on birth alone. I openly joined RSS wing of anti-caste
movements and maintained that all Hindus were of equal status as to
rights, social, and religious and should be considered high or low on
merit alone and not through the accident of birth in a particular caste
or profession.
I used publicly to take part in
organized anti-caste dinners in which thousands of Hindus, Brahmins,
Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Chamars and Bhangis participated. We broke the
caste rules and dined in the company of each other. I have read the
speeches and writings of Ravana, Chanakiya, Dadabhai Naoroji,
Vivekanand, Gokhale, Tilak, along with the books of ancient and modern
history of India and some prominent countries like England , France ,
America , and Russia .Moreover I studied the tenets of Socialism and
Marxism. But above all I studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar and
Gandhiji had written and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies
have contributed more to the molding of the thought and action of the
Indian people during the last thirty years or so, than any other single
factor has done.
All this reading and thinking led me
to believe it was my first duty to serve Hinduism and Hindus both as a
patriot and as a world citizen. To secure the freedom and to safeguard
the just interests of some thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would
automatically constitute the freedom and the well-being of all India ,
one fifth of human race. This conviction led me naturally to devote
myself to the Hindu Sanghtanist ideology and program, which alone, I
came to believe, could win and preserve the national independence of
Hindustan , my Motherland, and enable her to render true service to
humanity as well.
Since the year 1920, that
is, after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak, Gandhiji's influence in the
Congress first increased and then became supreme. His activities for
public awakening were phenomenal in their intensity and were reinforced
by the slogan of truth and non-violence which he paraded ostentatiously
before the country. No sensible or enlightened person could object to
those slogans. In fact there is nothing new or original in them. They
are implicit in every constitutional public movement. But it is nothing
but a mere dream if you imagine that the bulk of mankind is, or can ever
become, capable of scrupulous adherence to these lofty principles in
its normal life from day to day.
In fact, honour, duty, and
love of one's own kith and kin and country might often compel us to
disregard non-violence and to use force. I could never conceive that an
armed resistance to an aggression is unjust. I would consider it a
religious and moral duty to resist and, if possible, to overpower such
an enemy by use of force. [In the Ramayana] Rama killed Ravana in a
tumultuous fight and relieved Sita.. [In the Mahabharata], Krishna
killed Kansa to end his wickedness; and Arjuna had to fight and slay
quite a number of his friends and relations including the revered
Bhishma because the latter was on the side of the aggressor. It is my
firm belief that in dubbing Rama, Krishna , and Arjuna as guilty of
violence, the Mahatma betrayed a total ignorance of the springs of human
action.
In more recent history, it
was the heroic fight put up by Chhatrapati Shivaji that first checked
and eventually destroyed the Muslim tyranny in India . It was absolutely
essentially for Shivaji to overpower and kill an aggressive Afzal Khan,
failing which he would have lost his own life. In condemning history's
towering warriors like Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as
misguided patriots, Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit. He
was, paradoxical as it may appear a violent pacifist who brought untold
calamities on the country in the name of truth and non-violence, while
Rana Pratap, Shivaji, and the Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts
of their countrymen for ever for the freedom they brought to them.
The accumulating provocation of
thirty-two years, culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast, at last
goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhi should be
brought to an end immediately. Gandhi had done very well in South Africa
to uphold the rights and well-being of the Indian community there. But
when he finally returned to India he developed a subjective mentality
under which he alone was to be the final judge of what was right or
wrong. If the country wanted his leadership, it had to accept his
infallibility; if it did not, he would stand aloof from the Congress and
carry on his own way.
Against such an attitude there
can be no halfway house. Either Congress had to surrender its will to
his and had to be content with playing second fiddle to all his
eccentricity, whimsicality, metaphysics and primitive vision, or it had
to carry on without him.
He alone was the Judge of
everyone and every thing; he was the master brain guiding the civil
disobedience movement; no other could know the technique of that
movement. He alone knew when to begin and when to withdraw it. The
movement might succeed or fail, it might bring untold disaster, and
political reverses but that could make no difference to the Mahatma's
infallibility. 'A Satyagrahi can never fail' was his formula for
declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew what a
Satyagrahi is. Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and jury in his own
cause. These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupled with a most
severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character made Gandhi
formidable and irresistible.
Many people thought that his
politics were irrational but they had either to withdraw from the
Congress or place their intelligence at his feet to do with as he liked.
In a position of such absolute irresponsibility Gandhi was guilty of
blunder after blunder, failure after failure, disaster after disaster.
Gandhi's pro-Muslim policy is blatantly in his perverse attitude on the
question of the national language of India . It is quite obvious that
Hindi has the most prior claim to be accepted as the premier language.
In the beginning of his career in India , Gandhi gave a great impetus to
Hindi but as he found that the Muslims did not like it, he became a
champion of what is called Hindustani.. Everybody in India knows that
there is no language called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no
vocabulary. It is a mere dialect, it is spoken, but not written. It is a
bastard tongue and cross-breed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the
Mahatma's sophistry could make it popular. But in his desire to please
the Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national
language of India . His blind followers, of course, supported him and
the so-called hybrid language began to be used. The charm and purity of
the Hindi language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims. All his
experiments were at the expense of the Hindus.
From August 1946 onwards the private
armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus. The then
Viceroy, Lord Wavell, though distressed at what was happening, would not
use his powers under the Government of India Act of 1935 to prevent the
rape, murder and arson. The Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to
Karachi with some retaliation by the Hindus. The Interim Government
formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League member’s right
from its inception, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to
the government of which they were a part, the greater was Gandhi's
infatuation for them. Lord Wavell had to resign as he could not bring
about a settlement and he was succeeded by Lord Mountbatten. King Log
was followed by King Stork. The Congress which had boasted of its
nationalism and socialism secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the
point of the bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was
vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to
us from August 15, 1947.
Lord Mount batten came to be
described in Congress circles as the greatest Viceroy and
overnor-General this country ever had. The official date for handing
over power was fixed for June 30, 1948, but Mount batten with his
ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisected India ten months in
advance. This is what Gandhi had achieved after thirty years of
undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congress party calls 'freedom'
and 'peaceful transfer of power'. The Hindu-Muslim unity bubble was
finally burst and a the ocratic state was established with the consent
of Nehru and his crowd and they have called 'freedom won by them with
sacrifice' - whose sacrifice? When top leaders of Congress, with the
consent of Gandhi, divided and tore the country - which we consider a
deity of worship - my mind was filled with direful anger.
One of the conditions imposed by
Gandhi for his breaking of the fast unto death related to the mosques in
Delhi occupied by the Hindu refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were
subjected to violent attacks he did not so much as utter a single word
to protest and censure the Pakistan Government or the Muslims concerned.
Gandhi was shrewd enough to know that while undertaking a fast unto
death, had he imposed for its break some condition on the Muslims in
Pakistan , there would have been found hardly any Muslims who could have
shown some grief if the fast had ended in his death. It was for this
reason that he purposely avoided imposing any condition on the Muslims.
He was fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at all
perturbed or influenced by his fast and the Muslim League hardly
attached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi. Gandhi is being
referred to as the Father of the Nation.
But if that is so, he had failed
his paternal duty in as much as he has acted very treacherously to the
nation by his consenting to the partitioning of it. I stoutly maintain
that Gandhi has failed in his duty.
He has proved to be the Father
of Pakistan. His inner-voice, his spiritual power and his doctrine of
non-violence of which so much is made of, all crumbled before Jinnah's
iron will, and proved to be powerless. Briefly speaking, I thought to
myself and foresaw I shall be totally ruined, and the only thing I could
expect from the people would be nothing but hatred and that I shall
have lost my entire honor, even more valuable than my life, if I were to
kill Gandhiji. But at the same time I felt that the Indian politics in
the absence of Gandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to
retaliate, and would be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own
future would be totally ruined, but the nation would be saved from the
inroads of Pakistan. People may even call me and dub me as devoid of any
sense or foolish, but the nation would be free to follow the course
founded on the reason which I consider to be necessary for sound
nation-building.
After having fully
considered the question, I took the final decision in the matter, but I
did not speak about it to anyone whatsoever. I took courage in both my
hands and I did fire the shots at Gandhiji on 30th January 1948, on the
prayer-grounds of Birla House. I do say that
my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought
rack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus. There was no legal
machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book and for
this reason I fired those fatal shots. I bear no ill will towards anyone
individually but I do say that I had no respect for the present
government owing to their policy which was unfairly favorable towards
the Muslims. But at the same time I could clearly see that the policy
was entirely due to the presence of Gandhi.
I have to say with great
regret that Primes Minister Nehru quite forgets that his preaching's and
deeds are at times at variances with each other when he talks about
India as a secular state in season and out of season, because it is
significant to note that Nehru has played
a leading role in the establishment of the theocratic state of Pakistan,
and his job was made easier by Gandhi's persistent policy of
appeasement towards the Muslims. I now stand before the court to accept
the full share of my responsibility for what I have done and the judge
would, of course, pass against me such orders of sentence as may be
considered proper. But I would like to add that I do not desire any
mercy to be shown to me, nor do I wish that anyone else should beg for
mercy on my behalf. My confidence about the moral side of my action has
not been shaken even by the criticism leveled against it on all sides. I
have no doubt that honest writers of history will weighs my act and
find the true value thereof some day in future.
JAI HIND !
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He has made some points----will we consider them while
teaching HISTORY to our children. He might not be correct in killing
GANDHI---He got the punishment for it---He was hanged---but I don't
think HE WAS THE DEVIL
WHICH OUR TEXT BOOKS of history have been telling
generations of school children. He was AN ANGRY YOUNG MAN who could
NOT CONTROL HIS EMOTIONS DUE TO VISIBLE FOLLIES OF CONGRESS
and MK GANDHI. Do think about it.
