![]() ![]() ![]() Godse had plotted the assassination with Narayan Apte and six others. Soon after Mahatma Gandhi had fallen from the fatal shots at the prayer meeting, and while the attendant crowd was in shock, Godse was grasped and restrained by Herbert Reiner Jr., a vice-consul at the new American embassy in Delhi who was also attending eventually, Godse was taken away by the police. After the 1948 assassination, Godse claimed Gandhi favoured the political demands of British India's Muslims during the partition of India of 1947. Godse had failed in two unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi in 1944 before he succeeded the third time. Godse was a member of the political party, the Hindu Mahasabha and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary volunteer organization and a popularizer of the work of his mentor Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who had created the ideology of Hindutva. He was a Hindu nationalist from Maharashtra who shot Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range at a multi-faith prayer meeting in Birla House in New Delhi on 30 January 1948. Nathuram Vinayak Godse ( – 15 November 1949) ( pronunciation) was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. ![]()
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