Points: The assassinations of Mahatma Gandhi and Indira Gandhi — Other recent assassinations of public men in other countries — Heinous acts universally condemned.
Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead in Delhi on 30 January 1948. The whole world was shocked and the people of India felt ashamed. Everyone hoped that the martyrdom of Gandhi would be the last assassination of public man in India. But on October 31, 1948 our beloved leader Shrimati Indira Gandhi fell to the bullets of assassins, her own personal guards.
Sheikh Mujibar Rabman of Bangladesh had likewise been assassinated. The memory of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, President of USA, is still fresh in the minds of many men. The killing of Martin Luther King, the black American Humanist is also unforgettable. The assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister, Olaf Palme who was a great friend of India and the Third World, is a more recent tragedy. More than two thousand years ago Julius Caesar was publicly assassinated in Rome. It is our shame that even today a person like Sant Longowall was murdered near a holy place.
Politics is concerned with state power. But in a democracy, there is no place for violence. It is unfortunate that in a democratic country like India public men are becoming targets of assassination. The people of India condemn violence, specially assassinations of public men, most unequivocally. They denounce such acts as savage and senseless.
Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead in Delhi on 30 January 1948. The whole world was shocked and the people of India felt ashamed. Everyone hoped that the martyrdom of Gandhi would be the last assassination of public man in India. But on October 31, 1948 our beloved leader Shrimati Indira Gandhi fell to the bullets of assassins, her own personal guards.
Sheikh Mujibar Rabman of Bangladesh had likewise been assassinated. The memory of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, President of USA, is still fresh in the minds of many men. The killing of Martin Luther King, the black American Humanist is also unforgettable. The assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister, Olaf Palme who was a great friend of India and the Third World, is a more recent tragedy. More than two thousand years ago Julius Caesar was publicly assassinated in Rome. It is our shame that even today a person like Sant Longowall was murdered near a holy place.
Politics is concerned with state power. But in a democracy, there is no place for violence. It is unfortunate that in a democratic country like India public men are becoming targets of assassination. The people of India condemn violence, specially assassinations of public men, most unequivocally. They denounce such acts as savage and senseless.
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