TIMES OF INDIA ARTICLE: Gandhi's last words were not 'Hey Ram'

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Monday, January 30, 2005

 

KOLLAM (KERALA): Mahatma Gandhi did not utter "Hey Ram" when he fell to the

bullets of an assassin 58 years ago as has been famously attributed to the

Father of the Nation, his personal attendant says.

 

"Gandhi did not say 'Hey Ram'. In fact, he did not utter any word when the

bullets fired from Nathuram Godse's pistol pierced his chest," Bapu's

personal assistant Venkita Kalyanam who claims to be a witness to the

horrific event told a news conference on Sunday.

 

Kalyanam said he was just behind the Mahatma when he was shot dead in the

Teen Murti area of New Delhi on January 30, 1948.

 

The 83-year-old Kalyanam, who hails from Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, said

politics in post-Independent India had taken an entirely different turn from

what the Mahatma could have wished.