Why did a member of RSS assassinate Mahatma Gandhi?

Nathuram Godse brother Gopal Godse explained this a lot of times in his last days when he was in Pune. read more

When he finalized the plan to assassinate Gandhi, Godse left the RSS organization a few days before that. He left it because if he stays as a member of the RSS organization, the government would ban this organization for the life long, and the big issue would have been that, the people of the country did not accept the RSS organization throughout the life. read more

He shot Gandhi in the chest three times at point-blank range. Godse was a former member of the right-wing nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh; he believed that Gandhi favoured the political demands of India's Muslims during the partition of India. He plotted the assassination with Narayan Apte and six others. read more

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 in the compound of Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in central New Delhi. His assassin was Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a right-wing advocate of Hindu nationalism , a member of the political party the Hindu Mahasabha, and a past member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which he left in 1940 to form an armed organization. read more