GANDHIJI SHOT DEAD : THE FINAL MOMENTS
June 25, 1934-Poona: Bomb explodes near car in which Gandhi and Kasturba are travelling. Chief Officer of the Pune Muncipal Corporation, two police men and seven others injured.
May 1944-Panchagani: Group led by Nathuram Godse reaches Gandhi’s place of residence near Pune. During an evening prayer meeting , Godse rushes towards Gandhi with a dagger, shouting slogans. He was overpowered.
September 1944: Group led by Nathuram Godse accosts Gandhi as he leaves Sevagram for talks with Jinnah. Godse carrying a dagger.
January 20, 1948: Madanlal Pahwa, Gopal and Nathuram Godse with 4 others in bomb attack bid at Birla House.
January 28, 1948: “If I’m to die by the bullet of a mad man I must do so smiling. God must be in my heart and on my lips. And if anything happens, you are not to shed a single tear.”---Gandhiji
January 30, 1948: [5:05 p.m.] Gandhiji emerges from Birla House, with Abha Gandhi and Manu Gandhi, walks briskly to prayer platform.
[5:12 p.m.]- 15 yards short of the platform, Nathuram Godse shoots with revolver. Assailant overpowered. Gandhi carried into Birla House and doors of the room closed.
[5:27 p.m.]- Death (FIR later gives time as 5:45 p.m.)
[5:40 p.m.]-First conformation of death.
[8:00 p.m.]- Rumour spreads amid waiting crowd that Gandhi was not dead and doctors were hopeful of recovery. Nehru comes out of room, climbs onto the outer gates and tells the gathering that Gandhi was indeed dead.
[9:00 p.m.]- Body put on plain bier, draped in white khadi, carried to the terrace of Birla House, placed in slightly slanting posture, for waiting crowds below to see.
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