Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on this day
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948, during a prayer meeting at Delhi?s Birla House. He was shot thrice by Nathuram Godse. "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," Gandhi had reportedly said two days before his assassination.
On this day, 68 years ago, Mahatma Gandhi had breathed his last after being fatally shot while on his way to a prayer meeting at the Birla House. Here are a few things to know about his assassination: