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30/01/23 09:11 AM IST

Mahatma Gandhi Death Anniversary

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  • Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948. Mahatma Gandhi Assassination was done by Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte.
About MK Gandhi
  • Mahatma Gandhi was the greatest leader of the Indian independence movement.
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869, in Porbandar in the princely state of Kathiawar in Gujarat.
  • His father was Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi who served as a dewan of Porbandar state.
  • Throughout his life, in his principles practices, and beliefs, he always held on to non-violence and simple living. He influenced many great leaders and the nation respectfully addresses him as the father of the nation or Bapu.
  • He worked for the upliftment of untouchables and called them Harijan meaning the children of God.
  • Rabindranath Tagore is said to have accorded the title of Mahatma to Gandhi.
  • It was Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose who first addressed him as the Father of the Nation.
Death Anniversary
  • At the age of 78, Mahatma Gandhi was killed on January 30, 1948, in the grounds of Birla House, a sizable palace in the heart of New Delhi that is today known as Gandhi Smriti.
  • Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a right-wing Hindu paramilitary group and member of the Hindu Mahasabha, was his assassin.
  • Nathuram Godse was a Chitpavan Brahmin from Pune, Maharashtra, and a Hindu nationalist.
  • Nathuram Godse believed that during the partition of India the year before, Mahatma Gandhi had been too accommodative to Pakistan.
Source- Indian Express

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