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India Gazette
2 days ago
- Politics
- India Gazette
Congress MP Surjewala says RSS
Jhajjar (Haryana) [India], June 8 (ANI): Congress MP Randeep Surjewala on Sunday, alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) had aligning with the British during India's freedom struggle and opposing the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. Speaking to reporters here, Surjewala said, 'RSS never participated in the country's freedom struggle. They were with the British... Crores of people in this country contributed to the freedom struggle, and their leader was Mahatma Gandhi. I know RSS hates Mahatma Gandhi and worships Nathuram Godse.' He further framed the current political discourse as a clash of ideologies, stating, 'In this country, there is a battle between the ideologies of Godse and Gandhi. On one side, there is the ideology of Gandhi, which created India. On the other hand, there is an ideology of Godse who wants to divide the whole country based on regionalism, caste, and religion.' His remark came after RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat emphasised the collective nature of India's freedom struggle, stating that the country's independence was the result of widespread efforts beginning with the 1857 uprising, and not the achievement of any single individual. Addressing a book release event in Nagpur as the chief guest, Bhagwat said, 'There is always a debate about due to whose efforts the country attained independence. But the reality is that this independence didn't come about due to just one individual. Efforts for this started in 1857, and the fire ignited everywhere; after that, the fire never died down. The efforts continued, and with everyone's collective efforts, we attained independence.' Explaining the importance of collective thought and construction, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said, 'The direction of the Sangh (RSS) is decided by collective thought, the work of the Sangh is not the work of one or two people, the Sangh whatever one does and whatever one says, it is a collective decision.' Earlier on June 5, the RSS chief strongly condemned the recent terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, and lauded the Indian Army's swift and effective response while urging all political forces to maintain the spirit of unity that emerged in its aftermath. (ANI)
Time of India
6 days ago
- General
- Time of India
Former MP tests Covid-positive in Nashik, quarantined
Nashik: Amid rising Covid cases in the state, the city has also reported its first patient. Former MP Hemant Godse tested positive and has been quarantined at his home. He had returned from Mumbai just two days ago. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Godse told TOI that he tested Covid-positive and is quarantined at his home. Nashik Municipal Corporation's (NMC) health department confirmed the same. Godse is staying at his other residence in Deolali Camp outside city limits, and the district health department has been informed in this connection. Meanwhile, NMC has set up a special ward with 10 beds each at two civic hospitals — New Bytco and Zakir Hussain — to treat patients if Covid cases rise in the city. "We have taken precautionary measures. Besides the special wards at two hospitals, we also have adequate stocks of medicines at both facilities for such cases," said a civic official. A senior health officer of NMC told TOI, "We have urged the state health department to provide at least 1,000 antigen kits for rapid Covid tests at the earliest." The NMC health department is also procuring 10,000 antigen kits on its own. A proposal has been submitted to NMC commissioner Manisha Khatri for approval. "Once we get the civic chief's nod, the proposal will be tabled at the meeting of the general body of NMC for its nod," said another civic official. NMC limits host 30 urban primary health centres (PHCs) across areas. Instructions have been given to the medical staff at these centres to conduct antigen tests of suspected Covid patients and also create awareness among people coming to outpatient departments (OPDs) about precautions to take. NMC has appealed to people to wear masks if they are going to crowded places.
Scroll.in
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Scroll.in
Bombay HC criticises Maharashtra government for arresting student over post about Operation Sindoor
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday criticised the Maharashtra government for arresting a Pune student for an allegedly objectionable social media post about Operation Sindoor, PTI reported. A division bench of Justices Gauri Godse and Somasekhar Sundaresan directed the student's counsel to file a bail petition, adding that it would be granted immediately. The bench also criticised the 19-year-old's college for rusticating her for the social media post, saying that educational institutes need to help students and not turn them into criminals, Live Law reported. The court was hearing a petition filed by the engineering student challenging her rustication. The bench said that the student had already faced the consequences after being rusticated by the college and that she must be released. The 19-year-old is a second-year information technology student at Sinhgad Academy of Engineering, a private unaided college affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University. On May 7, she had allegedly reposted a post on Instagram from an account that criticised the Indian government, PTI reported. The post was related to military tensions between India and Pakistan after Operation Sindoor, according to Live Law. She had deleted the post and apologised after receiving threats online. However, she was arrested on May 9 following protests against her post, according to PTI. She was rusticated by the college on the same day. In its rustication letter, the Sinhgad Academy of Engineering claimed that the action was justified as the student had brought disrepute to the institution. She had anti-national sentiments and posed a risk to the campus community and society, PTI quoted the institute as having alleged. The student had challenged her rustication in the court, terming it a gross violation of her fundamental rights, PTI reported. In her petition, she urged the court to quash the rustication and allow her to appear for her semester examinations that was scheduled to begin on May 24. During the hearing on Tuesday, Justice Godse verbally questioned the action taken by the college. 'You are ruining the life of a student?' Live Law quoted Godse as having asked the counsel representing the college. 'What kind of conduct this is? Somebody expresses something you want to ruin the life of the student? How can you rusticate? Did you call upon an explanation?' Godse asked if the purpose of an educational institute was 'only to educate academically'. She said that the college cannot stop her from writing the examinations. 'Let her appear for the remaining three papers,' Godse added. Additional Government Pleader Priyabhushan Kakade, appearing for the state government, alleged that the girl's social media post was against national interest, PTI reported. The court responded that national interest would not be hurt by a post by a student who had realised her mistake and apologised. The bench said that 'such a radical reaction' by the state 'will further radicalise the person'. 'You need to reform her and not convert her into a criminal,' Live Law quoted Godse as having said. 'What does the state want? It doesn't want the students to express their opinions? You want to convert students into criminals?' The court permitted the student to either convert the matter into a criminal petition or file a fresh petition, adding that it would hear it on Tuesday evening and order her release. 'Educational institutes need to help students but not help them become a criminal,' it said. Kakade also told the court that the student can appear for her examinations with police escort, Live Law reported. In reply, Godse stated: 'She isn't a criminal. She cannot be asked to appear with police around her. She has to be released. She cannot be stopped from appearing in exams. She cannot be asked to appear with police around her.' Student's plea In the petition against her rustication, the student said that the order passed by the Sinhgad Academy of Engineering was 'arbitrary and unlawful', PTI reported. The petition added that the order was issued without a show cause notice or giving her an opportunity to defend herself. 'The action [of rustication], triggered solely by a social media post expressing personal opinions, was taken without affording the petitioner any opportunity of hearing and is hence in gross violation of the principles of natural justice and fundamental rights under Article 14, 19(1)(a) and 21,' PTI quoted her petition as saying. While Article 14 of the Constitution pertains to the right to equality, Article 19(1)(a) guarantees the right to free speech and Article 21 right to life. The student also said that she had reposted the social media post without ill-intent and had immediately apologised. Tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad had escalated on May 7 when the Indian military carried out strikes – codenamed Operation Sindoor – on what it claimed were terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The strikes were in response to the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, which killed 26 persons on April 22.
Hans India
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Nathuram Godse: The Man Behind Gandhi's Assassination And His Failed First Attempt
On this day in history, May 19, 1910, Nathuram Godse was born in Baramati to a Chittapavan Brahmin family that had already lost three sons. Believing their family was cursed, his parents initially raised him as a girl, complete with a nose ring (nath) that contributed to his name. After failing to complete his matriculation and experiencing business failures, Godse's path took a radical turn when he joined the RSS at age 22. He later became secretary of a Hindu Mahasabha branch in Pune, embracing extremist Hindu nationalism that would ultimately lead him to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi. What's less known is that Godse and his accomplices originally planned to kill Gandhi on January 20, 1948—ten days before the successful assassination. This first attempt, described by historians as a "comedy of errors," involved six conspirators including Godse's brother Gopal, arms dealer Digambar Badge, and Narayan Apte, a whiskey-loving womanizer who had harbored resentment toward Gandhi for years. Their elaborate scheme at Delhi's Birla House prayer meeting collapsed spectacularly. A time bomb created a diversion but failed to harm Gandhi. Meanwhile, Badge lost his nerve, Gopal became trapped in a room after a cot collapsed under him, and accomplice Madanlal Pahwa was captured after being identified by a young girl. Gandhi, remarkably calm throughout the chaos, later addressed the incident without animosity, saying, "You should not have any kind of hate against the person who was responsible for this." The failed plot gave Gandhi ten more days of life before Godse would return on January 30, 1948, to fire three fatal bullets into the Mahatma's chest, forever altering history and cementing his own legacy as the man who killed the father of the nation.
India Today
19-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
How a one-eyed man foiled Nathuram Godse's plot to kill Mahatma Gandhi
Nathuram Godse was born on this day (May 19, 1910) in Baramati into a Chittapawan Brahmin family. His parents had lost three sons before him. Believing it would cast off the curse on the family, they put a nath (ring) in the fourth son's nose and started dressing him up as a girl. The boy came to be known as Nathmal in the village but was renamed Nathuram after his younger brother was born, ending, the family believed, the to an English medium school, Nathuram failed to clear matric. To make ends meet, he opened a tailoring shop, which was soon shut down. At the age of 22, he joined the RSS, writes Justice GD Khosla, the judge who heard Godse's review petition in Mahatma Gandhi's murder case. "A few years later he shifted to Pune and became secretary of a local branch of the Hindu Mahasabha," according to Khosla. (Murder of the Mahatma: GD Khosla)In his radical Hindu extremist avatar, Godse was to pump three bullets from his Baretta into Mahatma Gandhi's chest on January 30, 1948. Godse and his men originally planned to kill Gandhi on January 20. But their attempt turned into a comedy of errors that extended Mahatma Gandhi's life by ten & THE MURDERERSadvertisementOn January 12, Mahatma Gandhi, 78, decided to fast until communal harmony was restored in India. He was, as Ramchandra Guha writes, also upset with the Government's decision to "withhold from Pakistan its share of the sterling balances owed by Britain to (undivided) India after the war". (Gandhi, The Years That Changed India)The next day, four men gathered in the Pune office of the Hindu Rashtra, a newspaper co-founded by Godse. Angry with Gandhi's fast-unto-death, Godse announced it was time to kill ASSASSIN'S CREEDGodse's partner, a dapper man who loved whiskey and women, Narayan Apte, had been upset with Gandhi for many years. The two partners were joined by Vishnu Karkare, a Mahasabha member who owned a guest house, and Madanlal Pahwa, a refugee who blamed Gandhi for the quartet soon had two more members. Digambar Badge, a petty arms dealer, for money, and Gopal Godse, who wanted to help his elder six were to depart for Delhi via Bombay in three batches. Karkare and Badge by the Frontier Mail, Nathuram and Apte were to board Air India's flight number DC3 to Delhi and Gopal and Badge decided to take a fast passenger. They were to meet at the Hindu Mahasabha guest house near New Delhi's Birla there was a problem – Gandhi was already JANUARY 14By that evening, Gandhi's health had deteriorated. Treating doctors believed he had only 24 hours if the fast was not broken. "Death is a great friend, it relieves us of all pain," Gandhi announced, refusing to budge. When warned of imminent death, he asked, "Does your science really know everything? Have you forgotten Lord Krishna's words in the Gita — I bear the whole world in an infinitely small part of my being?" (Freedom at Midnight: Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre)JAN 18-19, NEW DELHIGandhi broke his six-day fast after leaders from various communities, including the RSS, pledged to restore peace. A few days ago, the Indian government had also announced it would release the funds promised to Pakistan. Meanwhile, Muhammad Ali Jinnah had also accepted Gandhi's desire to visit Pakistan to "end hatred and violence". "I still have a lot to achieve," Gandhi said, agreeing to take orange juice. The murder plan was next morning, the assassins gathered in a secluded area with a thick overgrowth to test their weapons. One of their two desi pistols failed to fire. The other missed the target by several feet. "This will kill us faster than Gandhi," one of them said ruefully. But, there was an alternate 20, NEW DELHIAfter spending the night drinking whiskey (Apte and Karkare), coffee, and putting together raw grenades, Godse and his men left for Birla House, where Gandhi was to hold a prayer a father of two, believed he'd be back in Bombay, where he planned to meet an air hostess – the latest among his girlfriends. He was convinced that the plan was fool-proof and Mahatma Gandhi would be blown to their plan was only to provide a brief 20, THE D-DAYMahatma Gandhi addressed the gathering from a raised platform. Behind him were quarters for the staff, from where a ventilator opened right behind Gandhi's seat. It was decided Badge would enter the quarters dressed as a photographer and lob a grenade at Mahatma Gandhi through the and Karkare were tasked to approach Mahatma Gandhi from the front and attack with grenades and pistols. Godse and Apte were to coordinate the assault. The signal was to the crude bomb with a timer that Pahwa was to place near the boundary OF ERRORSWhat happened next is defined in detail in Freedom at Midnight. Despite the sinister plot, it reads like a farce. Here is the gist of 5 pm, Pahwa placed a time bomb around 150-metres from the dias. A grenade bulging from his pocket, Badge started moving towards the room at the rear, but froze. The occupant of the room was one-eyed. 'Bad omen," he declared, refusing to see reason. Finally, he swapped places with Gopal Godse, and decided to fire at Mahatma Gandhi from the Gopal was so short that he couldn't reach the small opening. He dragged a jute cot to gain elevation, but the strings broke. Unable to get a clear view, he gave up. As he tried to step out, he realised the lock had malfunctioned, leaving him in a dark room with no clue about what was happening the time bomb went off, it created the expected melee. Unperturbed, Gandhi tried to calm them down, saying there was nothing to worry about. Convinced that the time had come, Godse signalled to Apte, who relayed the message to Badge, who was standing closest to a petty businessman, stood frozen. Suddenly, the enormity of the crime dawned on him. Realising he was just a trader, not an assassin, he a young girl identified Pahwa as the man who had placed the time bomb. Her screams drew the attention of the gathering. Pahwa was pinned to the ground, beaten by the crowd, and arrested by the police. Seeing their accomplice in the police net, the others fled to their hideout – the Marina Hotel near Connaught 21, NEW DELHIMahatma Gandhi addressed the incident at his prayer meeting. "I displayed no bravery. I thought it was part of army practice somewhere. I only came to know later that it was a bomb and that it might have killed me if God had not willed it that I should live. But if a bomb explodes in front of me and if I am not scared and succumb, then you will be able to say that I died with a smile on my face. Today, I do not yet deserve to be so praised. You should not have any kind of hate against the person who was responsible for this. He had taken it for granted that I am an enemy of Hinduism". (Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, his People, and an Empire, Rajmohan Gandhi)Must Watch
