Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) [India], November 16: The Hindu Mahasabha installed a statue of Nathuram Godse in the interior of their office in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh on his 68th death anniversary on November 15.
The Hindu Mahasabha had requested for land from the district manager for a temple dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi's murderer in the city, but their appeal was not considered.
"The government declined to give us land for the temple, so we created one on our private land," Hindu Mahasabha VP, Narayan Sharma said.
Sharma asserted that the youth of today had no awareness about the past of India.
"This temple has been established to inform the current generation in relation to India's freedom fight and who all sacrificed their lives and took necessary steps for it," VP further said .
Talking about the Godse temple, VP Sharma said, "In 1947, the British said Mahatma Gandhi that they would leave India, but discussion of partition started happening. The Akhil Hindu Mahasabha protested in opposition to it."
VP added that the huge protests encouraged Gandhi to say that the partition of India and Pakistan would be done over his dead body.
"But both Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to turn into prime ministers. So Gandhi went ahead with the partition, and through the development of partition, lakhs of Hindus were killed and their dead bodies were sent to India. Nathuram Godse, who was a hardcore Hindu, could not see it and thus, killed Mahatma Gandhi," Sharma insisted
Sharma quoted the temple was established on their possessions and "nobody can change or lay a hand on our personal opinions."
Nathuram Vinayak was a Hindu supporter of independence, who gun down Mahatma Gandhi, shooting him in the chest three times in New Delhi on January 30, 1948.
Godse was hanged till death on November 15, 1949.