Thread by @NareshVelu

Some relevant excerpts from Nathuram Godse's Why I Killed Gandhi:
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. 1/n

[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..2/n

..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. 3/n

All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty to serve Hindudom 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..4/n

.. 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 programme, which alone, I came to believe, could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan..5/n

..my Motherland, and enable her to render true service to humanity as well.6/n

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.7/n

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. 8/n

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 favourable towards the Muslims. But at the same time I could clearly see that the policy was entirely due to presence of Gandhi9/n

These excerpts clearly shows the driving force behind what Godse did was intense Hindutva and a hatred for what he perceived as Gandhi's "pro-Muslim policy".

Why the uproar for calling him a terrorist and a Hindu? 🤔

#Godse #KamalHaasan
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Note: "All this reading" refers to writings and speeches of prominent icons of Godse's time. But he studied Savarkar and Gandhi the most, as "these two have contributed more to the moulding of the thought and action of the Indian people during the last 30 years than any other.."