Tag: Nathuram Godse
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Opposition leaders slam Sangh ideology on Martyrs Day
While paying tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his 71st death anniversary, the Congress and other opposition leaders took a jibe at Sangh and the right-wing ideology.
January 30, 2019 -
Did Sardar Patel not ban RSS? Congress asks Modi
The government banned the RSS on February 4, 1948, days after Nathuram Godse shot dead Mahatma Gandhi here.
October 31, 2018 -
Play staged on BHU campus didn’t glorify Nathuram Godse: Probe panel
A play which allegedly celebrated the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, Nathuram Godse, was staged in Banaras Hindu University at the three-day cultural festival Sanskriti 2018 organised by BHU’s Faculty of Arts last month. It was earlier reported that while the participants presented the play on stage, students, who were watching it, cheered and clapped. A …
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March 18, 2018 -
Play ‘celebrating’ Nathuram Godse staged on BHU campus
A play which celebrated the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, Nathuram Godse, was staged in Banaras Hindu University at the three-day cultural festival Sanskriti 2018 organised by BHU’s Faculty of Arts. According to a report in News18, while the participants presented the play on stage, students, who were watching it, cheered and clapped. A video in …
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February 22, 2018 -
Did US intelligence agency try to protect Mahatma: PIL in SC
Did the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II and a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), try to protect Mahatma Gandhi? This question is one among many raised before the Supreme Court in a petition which has sought the re-opening of investigation into …
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October 1, 2017 -
Plan to construct Godse memorial in Maharashtra scrapped
The Maharashtra government on Monday declared that it would spike plans to erect a memorial to Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi's assassin, in Thane district. The assurance was given by Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil after Congress Legislative Council member Sanjay Dutt raised the issue in a special session of the legislature on Sunday through a point …
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May 22, 2017 -
Extraordinarily ordinary
The uppermost thought on 30 January this year, the 69th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, was that the 79-year-old man, whose heart bled at the sight of misery, had bled to death on January 30, 1948 after three bullets were fired at point-blank range by a certain Nathuram Godse. The Mahatma had gone the way …
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February 6, 2017