Mahatma Gandhi's killing should be probed again: Subramanian Swamy

BJP MP and senior leader Subramanian Swamy raised questions over the killing of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 and demanded re-investigation in the case. He said there are questions such as why he was not taken to a nearby hospital when he was alive for forty minutes after being shot.

Shimla: Emphasising that there are loopholes in the investigation that followed the killing of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, BJP firebrand leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy on Saturday demanded that the case be re-investigated.

"There are loopholes in the case. Mahatma Gandhi was alive for forty minutes after being shot at...why was he not taken to the nearby hospital, which was just 10 minutes away from the place of the incident," he asked in a press conference here.

The old name of that hospital was Willingdon hospital, currently it is known as Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, he said.

Swamy asked why the girls - Manu and Abha - with whom Gandhi came to the prayer meeting point in Birla House in Delhi, were not made witnesses in the case? Who stopped them from being the eye-witness in the case as they would have seen the assassin from a close range," he asked, saying that by Mahatma Gandhi dying, the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was the one "who benefited the most".

"Soon after, he banned the RSS, sidelined Vallabhbhai Patel," he said, adding that he was the one who became more powerful after Gandhi's killing.

Swamy, however, said that he was not suggesting that Nehru was involved in the killing of Gandhi but the case should be re-investigated.

The BJP leader also asked why an FIR in the case was not filed by the eye-witnesses. "There are many questions that need to be answered and hence the re-investigation," he added.