'Cracking down on serial-offender and terror accused MP Pragya Thakur, who hailed Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as a ‘patriot’ in the Lok Sabha, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday barred her from attending its parliamentary party meeting in the ongoing session and removed her from the consultative committee on defence. BJP working president J.P. Nadda announced the disciplinary action against her and condemned the controversial Hindutva leader’s remarks in a bid to defuse the political crisis triggered by her remarks in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday...'
'BJP leader Pragya Singh Thakur has once again stirred up a controversy with her remarks on Nathuram Godse in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. She termed Nathuram Godse, the one who killed Mahatma Gandhi, a 'deshbhakth'. Her comment drew crticism from various quarters and the Congress left no stone unturned to take on the BJP. "Repeatedly referring to Nathuram Godse as a "deshbhakt" is a perfect representation of BJP's deplorable hate politics. Will PM Modi condemn Pragya Thakur's remarks or continue to stay silent?" the Congress tweeted...'
'Malegoan blast-accused and Member of Parliament from Bhopal constituency, Pragya Singh Thakur, yet again raked up a controversy by claiming that Nathuram Godse, assassin of M K Gandhi, was a patriot. When asked why she was missing from the 42-day long ‘Gandhi Sankalp Yatra’ organised by her own party (Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP) to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Thakur said on Wednesday that she believed in following the path shown by Gandhi ‘instead of publicising it’...'
'Gwalior district administration's refusal to permit construction of a temple in the name of Mahatma Gandhi's killer Nathuram Godse has not stopped Hindu Mahasabha from laying the foundation stone for the same. The foundation stone was laid in Hindu Mahasabha's Daulatganj office area. A statue has already been put up in the office to which floral tributes were paid today...'
'In what appears to be a deliberate strategy one Hindutva organisation takes a step back for another to take several steps forward. The Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha that has worked closely with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on several initiatives in the past, such as the more recent ghar wapsi and love jihad programs, is now preparing to commemorate the assassin of Gandhi as a “martyr” and a “desh bhakt”.
'Hindu Mahasabha, which made the headlines last year when it declared plans to build temples for its former member and Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse, now wants to commemorate November 15 — the day Godse was hanged — as 'balidan diwas'. Chandraprakash Kaushik, president of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, said he has asked all its 120 offices across the country to gear up for a "district level" commemoration of "Balidan diwas" this year. Godse was hanged in Ambala jail on November 15, 1949.
'...Sixty-eight years on, the ease with which the RSS has gone about sanitising its past must put India to shame. The Right Wing organisation now denies any complicity in the killing of Gandhi. Its grudging admission that Godse had been a longstanding member of the RSS is accompanied by the dubious claim that he quit the organisation long before he pulled the trigger on Gandhi. As "evidence" of its innocence, it cites the findings of an independent commission of inquiry instituted in 1966 to investigate the circumstances of Gandhi's assassination.
'It is far too early to dismiss the possibility of a future Hindu State in India. However, the possibility does not appear a strong one. The secular state has far more than an even chance of survival in India” (India as Secular State, 1963). It was the early sixties when American political scientist Donald Eugene Smith commented about the “possibility of a Hindu state in India”.
' The local authorities in Meerut have sealed the spot in that town where activists of the Hindu Mahasabha want to erect a statue commemorating Nathuram Godse. Lacking any sense of irony, the Hindu Mahasabha wants 30 January to be called shourya divas, or the day of courage. The courage being what Godse showed when he murdered Mohandas Gandhi that day in 1948. The activists have chosen to act now, in 2015, when a government, which shares much of the activists’ ideology, is in power at the centre.
"The Hindu Mahasabha is going full on to uphold its agenda of propagating Nathuram Godse's ideology. In a fresh move, the Hindu Mahasabha has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding Mahatama Gandhi's photo be replaced on Indian currency notes with that of Veer Shivaji, Maharana Pratap along with image of B R Ambedkar who gave the country the Constitution post-Independence... The mahasabha has also urged the PM to stop universities and colleges from teaching students that Mahatama Gandhi is "father of the nation" when the same has not been done officially by the government.
