New Delhi: A statue of Nathuram Godse was vandalised by Jamnagar Congress president Digubha Jadeja in Jamnagar of Gujarat on Tuesday. The statue of Nathuram was installed by right wing outfit, Hindu Sena.
Digubha along with his associates reached the site on Tuesday morning and demolished the statue. The party workers also tied a saffron cloth around the statue of Nathuram Godse while knocking it down.
Nathuram Vinayak Godse had assassinated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on January 30, 1948 by firing bullets at Bapu from close range. Gandhiji died on the spot while Godse was hanged to death in Ambala Central jail on Nov 15, 1949.
The decision of installing Nathuram Godse’s statue by the Hindu Sena was taken in August. However, after the local authorities refused to allocate a place for the statue, the organisation installed it at Hanuman ashram, while chanting slogans “Nathuram Godse amar rahe.”
Meanwhile, th Hindu Mahasabha has said that it will erect statue of Nathuram Godse with soil from Haryana’s Ambala Central Jail, where he was hanged to death in 1949 for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
“The Mahasabha activists last week brought the soil from the Ambala jail, where Godse and Narayan Apte were executed. This soil will be used to make the statues of Godse and Apte and they will be installed at the Mahasabha’s office in Gwalior,” said Hindu Mahasabha national vice president Dr. Jaiveer Bharadwaj.