Why did nathuram godse kill gandhi biography
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Nathuram Godse: The mystery surrounding Mahatma Gandhi's killer
Mr Jha, who trawled the archives, also dwells on the links between the two Hindu organisations. He writes that the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS had an "overlapping and fluid relationship" and an identical ideology.
Why did nathuram godse kill gandhi biography
The two groups, he points out, "always had close connections and sometimes even overlapping membership" until Gandhi was assassinated. (The RSS was banned for more than a year after Gandhi's murder.)
The RSS has always echoed what Godse said in court - that he left the organisation in the mid-1930s, and the judgement proved that it had nothing to do with the murder.
"To say that he was a RSS member is to only project a lie for political intensions," Ram Madhav, a senior RSS leader, external, has said.
MS Golwalkar, one of the most influential leaders of the RSS, described Gandhi's assassination as a "tragedy of unparalleled magnitude - the more so, because