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Haasan had on May 12 said, “I am not saying this because many Muslims are here, I am saying this in front of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue. The first terrorist in independent India is a Hindu, his name is Nathuram Godse.”

In a campaigning speech in Tamil Nadu, Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Haasan had made a controversial statement. Kamal had said that the country's ‘first terrorist was a Hindu’ referring to Nathuram Godse, who killed Mahatma Gandhi

Sivakasi MLA representing AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, KT Rajenthra Bhalaji, said that Kamal Haasan's tongue must be cut off for terming Nathuram Godse as first Hindu terrorist of the country

Kamal Haasan, founder of the Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) has said that India’s first terrorist was a Hindu, pointing his fingers at Nathuram Godse, the assassinator of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation
 

Tagore’s differences with even Mahatma Gandhi in this respect are the centre of animated and celebrated scholarship.

“I want to tell them there is an expression in English ‘slip of tongue’…I wanted to say Maulana Azad, but what came out of my mouth was Mohammad Ali Jinnah,” Sinha said on Saturday

Former BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha said that Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who created Pakistan, belongs to the Congress family along with Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru

Ambedkar inverted Mahatma Gandhi's economic vision. Gandhi wanted the villages to stay as the nodal points of economic activity, but Ambedkar felt that villages as centres of economic activities nurtured caste exploitation.

Gandhi didn't stop at that. She went on, "Because employment is a negotiation after all, isn’t it? We are not Mahatma Gandhi’s children to keep giving without getting anything in return.”
 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written a blog recalling Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Dandi March, the important role Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel played in organising the event and the reasons for which the Mahatma wanted the Congress to be dissolved once India had attained freedom from the British rule  
 

Left without employment, the former KSRTC conductors lay on the busy Mahatma Gandhi Road in front of the secretariat and covered themselves with a white cloth, in a symbolic protest over the mass termination of employees.

 

50 students from the Pariyapuram Central AUP school, dressed up like Gandhiji, participated in a rally on his 71st death anniversary. Gandhi quiz competition, Gandhi painting competition and Gandhi essay competition were conducted in the school. 

 

The 51st edition of Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat was aired on state broadcaster Doordarshan and All India Radio (AIR) and can also be streamed on the YouTube channels of the Prime Minister's Office, Information and Broadcasting Ministry, AIR and DD News