Godse believed Gandhi had betrayed Hindu national unity.

Evidence

Gandhi’s assassin seemed to feel that he was saving the Mahatma from himself. Godse and his accomplice, Narayan Apte, climbed the gallows carrying a saffron flag, a map of undivided India and, ironically, a copy of the Bhagvad Gita, Gandhi’s “spiritual dictionary”. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 175

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hindus treated Gandhi as an infallible oracle whose word ended debate
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Hindus treated Gandhi as an infallible oracle whose word ended debate