Jawaharlal Nehru on Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
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“It was one of the votaries of this demand for Hindu Rashtra who killed the greatest living Hindu.”
“These people [the RSS] have the blood of Mahatma Gandhi on their hands and pious disclaimers and dissociation now have no meaning.”
“Communalism resulted not only in the division of the country, which inflicted a deep wound in the heart of the people which will take a long time to heal if it ever heals but also assassination of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.”
“Yet, he must have suffered — suffered for the failing of this generation whom he had trained, suffered because we went away from the path that he had shown us. And ultimately the hand of a child of his — for he after all is as much a child of his as any other Indian — a hand of that child of his struck him down.”
“That great disaster is a symbol to us to remember the big things of life and to forget the small things. We have thought too much of the small things. Now the time has come again, as in his death he has reminded us of the big things of life, the living truth, and if we remember that, then it will be well with us and well with India.”