Godse invoked the Gita while executing Gandhi.
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
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Godse assassinated Gandhi as a solemn ideological act, not a fleeing crime (similarity 0.84)
- Gandhi’s Brahmin assassin was a former RSS activist. (similarity 0.80)
- Ambedkar read the Gita as a defense of murder grounded in varna theory. (similarity 0.79)