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Thursday 20 July 2017

Man who saved Mahatma Gandhi passes away

Mumbai: Bhiku Daji Bhilare, who was claimed to have saved Mahatma Gandhi from being killed by Nathuram Godse in 1944, passed away on Wednesday after a brief illness.

The 98-year-old Gandhian, popularly known as 'Bhilare Guruji', was cremated at his village, Bhilar, in Mahabaleshwar Teshil in western Maharashtra's Satara district, family sources said.

"All of us had assembled in the Batha High School hall for the evening prayers when suddenly a door opposite me opened and in rushed Nathuram Godse. He was wielding a knife and muttering incoherently."

Bhilare blocked his path and twisted the knife out of his hand.

"My colleagues in the Seva Dal were also quick to react, and threw him out of the premises," he had recalled.

Bhilare had also claimed that Gopal Godse and Narayan Apte, who were implicated in the Mahatma's assassination, were present at the spot.

The Panchgani incident has been documented in the memoirs of Gandhiji's close associate, said Pyarelal, a functionary of Mani Bhawan in Mumbai from where Mahatma Gandhi initiated satyagraha and propagated the cause of swadeshi.

Source:-Zeenews

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