In a development with great political implications, senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy, has called for a probe in the Gandhi Assassination case.
Raising important questions in the case, Swamy has tweeted, “1st question: Why no post mortem or autopsy on Gandhiji’s body?
2nd : Why Abha and Manu as direct eyewitnesses not questioned in court?
3rd: How many empty chambers in Godse’s revolver? Italian revolver “untraceable”!! Why? We need to re-open the case.”
1st question: Why no post mortem or autopsy on Gandhiji's body? 2nd : Why Abha and Manu as direct eyewitnesses not questioned in court? 3rd: How many empty chambers in Godse's revolver? Italian revolver "untraceable"!! Why? We need to re-open the case
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) February 16, 2020
Replying to a comment on his tweet, Subramanian Swamy has also claimed that nobody took him to the hospital, rather a glass of water was given to Gandhi, while he was also made to lie on the floor in a room in the Birla House. Mountbatten, then the Governor General of India, appeared only after the leader was declared dead.
Gave him a glass of water while Gandhiji was made to lie on the floor in a room in Birla House. Mountbatten appeared only after Gandhi was declared dead
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) February 16, 2020
The contentious issues that Swamy has re-agitated now had also been raised in a 2017 petition before the apex court, wherein several facts in the case were challenged.
The petition had pointed to the possibility of a fourth bullet being fired at Gandhi and the involvement of a second assassin, apart from other people having prior knowledge of the conspiracy to murder the Congress leader.
Swamy had raised this issue in the Parliament too. Speaking on the floor of the Rajya Sabha, he had said, “Recently the Modi government has placed most of the files regarding the assassination of Mahatama Gandhi in the National Archives, and I have had a chance to go through it and I think it is very important to us.”
He had sought to point out the basic questions in the Rajya Sabha about why Gandhi was not rushed to a nearby hospital and why no autopsy was conducted. He had also raised the issue of suspicions of an extra fourth bullet being fired at Gandhi.
He has raised the same issues in his tweet now. In an apparent dig at the Gandhi scion, Swamy had said that “scurrilous comments” were being made even by lawmakers and the apex court had to pull them up, issuing stern warnings.
It must be noted that false accusations of the RSS having killed Mahatama Gandhi have been constantly made. Attempts have been made to portray Godse as a “Hindu terrorist”.
The Gandhi Assassination case is one of great political significance. And if there are some contentious issues based on credible sources and media reportage at the time, then the government must take the issue very seriously. Swamy’s revelations might just open up a crucial probe into the most critical political assassination case in India.