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    Nathu Ram Godse's Speech At The Trial

    NATHU RAM GODSE'S SPEECH AT THE TRIAL



    Nathuram Godse's speech at trial .. DO read it fully
    Full text of Godse's speech at his trial.....

    " On January 13, 1948, I learnt that Gandhiji had decided to go on fast unto
    death. The reason given was that he wanted an assurance of Hindu-Muslim
    Unity... But I and many others could easily see that the real motive...
    [was] to compel the Dominion Government to pay the sum of Rs 55 crores to
    Pakistan, the payment of which was emphatically refused by the
    Government.... But this decision of the people's Government was reversed to
    suit the tune of Gandhiji's fast. It was evident to my mind that the force
    of public opinion was nothing but a trifle when compared with the leanings
    of Gandhiji favourable to Pakistan.

    ....In 1946 or thereabout, Muslim atrocities perpetrated on Hindus under the
    Government patronage of Surhawardy in Noakhali made our blood boil. Our
    shame and indignation knew no bounds when we saw that Gandhiji had come
    forward to shield that very Surhawardy and began to style him as 'Shaheed
    Saheb' - a martyr - even in his prayer meetings...

    ....Gandhiji's influence in the Congress first increased and then became
    supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their
    intensity and were reinforced by the slogans of truth and non-violence which
    he ostentatiously paraded before the country... I could never conceive that
    an armed resistance to the aggressor is unjust... Ram killed Ravan in a
    tumultuous fight... Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness... In
    condemning Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Govind as 'misguided patriots,'
    Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit... Gandhiji was, paradoxically,
    a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the name
    of truth and nonviolence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji and the Guru will
    remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen forever...

    ....By 1919, Gandhiji had become desperate in his endeavours to get the
    Muslims to trust him and went from one absurd promise to another... He
    backed the Khilafat movement in this country and was able to enlist the full
    support of the National Congress in that policy... very soon the Moplah
    Rebellion showed that the Muslims had not the slightest idea of national
    unity... There followed a huge slaughter of Hindus... The British
    Government, entirely unmoved by the rebellion, suppressed it in a few months
    and left to Gandhiji the joy of his Hindu-Muslim Unity... British
    Imperialism emerged stronger, the Muslims became more fanatical, and the
    consequences were visited on the Hindus...

    The accumulating provocation of 32 years, culminating in his last pro-Muslim
    fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhiji
    should be brought to an end immediately... he developed a subjective
    mentality under which he alone was the final judge of what was right or
    wrong... Either Congress had to surrender its will to him and play second
    fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality... or it had to carry on
    without him... He was the master brain guiding the civil disobedience
    movement... The movement may succeed or fail; it may bring untold disasters
    and political reverses, but that could make no difference to the Mahatma's
    infallibility... These childish inanities and obstinacies, coupled with a
    most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character, made
    Gandhiji formidable and irresistible... In a position of such absolute
    irresponsibility, Gandhiji was guilty of blunder after blunder...

    ....The Mahatma even supported the separation of Sindh from the Bombay
    Presidency and threw the Hindus of Sindh to the communal wolves. Numerous
    riots took place in Karachi, Sukkur, Shikarpur and other places in which the
    Hindus were the only sufferers...

    ....From August 1946 onwards, the private armies of the Muslim League began
    a massacre of the Hindus... Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi
    with mild reactions in the Deccan... The Interim government formed in
    September was sabotaged by its Muslim League members, but the more they
    became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part,
    the greater was Gandhi's infatuation for them...

    ....The Congress, which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism,
    secretly accepted Pakistan and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was
    vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to
    us... This is what Gandhiji had achieved after 30 years of undisputed
    dictatorship, and this is what Congress party calls 'freedom'...

    ....One of the conditions imposed by Gandhiji for his breaking of the fast
    unto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by Hindu refugees. But
    when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent attacks he did not so much
    as utter a single word to protest and censure the Pakistan government...

    Gandhi is being referred to as the Father of the Nation. But if that is so,
    he had failed his paternal duty inasmuch as he has acted very treacherously
    to the nation by his consenting to the partitioning of it... The people of
    this country were eager and vehement in their opposition to Pakistan. But
    Gandhiji played false with the people...

    ....I shall be totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the
    people would be nothing but hatred... if I were to kill Gandhiji. But at the
    same time, I felt that Indian politics in the absence of Gandhiji would
    surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and be powerful with armed
    forces. No doubt, my own future would be totally ruined, but the nation
    would be saved from the inroads of Pakistan...

    ....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...

    ....I do not desire any mercy to be shown to me... I did fire shots at
    Gandhiji in open daylight. I did not make any attempt to run away; in fact I
    never entertained any idea of running away. I did not try to shoot myself...
    for, it was my ardent desire to give vent to my thoughts in an open Court.
    My confidence about the moral side of my action has not been shaken even by
    the criticism levelled of against it on all sides. I have no doubt, honest
    writers of history will weigh my act and find the true value thereof some
    day in future. "
    GJ
    "Jindagi Jindadili Ka Naam Hain"

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