Union min Hegde claims account hacked after tweet supporting Godse

"Nathuram Godse would have finally felt happy with this debate"

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Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Anantkumar Hegde claimed his Twitter account was hacked, hours after a tweet on Nathuram Godse. Academic Madhu Kishwar had first tweeted on Godse: “Sure he murdered Gandhi but he didn't hit & run. He surrendered & faced the trial with heroic courage & left a very powerful testament as to why he murdered Gandhi. I CONDEMN the murder but I admire Godse's courage in facing the gallows, staying firm on his version of patriotism,” she said.

Tagging this, Hegde tweeted: “Am glad 7 decades later today’s generation debates in a changed perceptional environment and gives good scope for the condemned to be heard upon. #NathuramGodse would have finally felt happy with this debate!” The News Minute reported on the tweet with a screenshot of the statement. The tweet has since been deleted from Hegde's account. 

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Hegde later tweeted: “My account was hacked since yesterday. There is no question of justifying Gandhi ji's murder. There can be no sympathy or justification of Gandhi ji's murder. We all have full respect for Gandhi ji's contribution to the nation”.

Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan had first stoked the debate, saying free India's first "terrorist was a Hindu", referring to Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi.

The actor-politician said he was one of those "proud Indians" who desires an India with equality and where the "three colours" in the tricolour, an obvious reference to different faiths, "remained intact."


"I am not saying this because this is a Muslim-dominated area, but I am saying this before a statue of Gandhi. Free India's first terrorist was a Hindu, his name is Nathuram Godse. There it (terrorism, apparently) starts," he said.

Later, BJP Bhopal candidate Pragya Singh Thakur said Mahatma Gandhi's assasin "Nathuram Godse was, is and would remain a patriot".

Thakur’s remark came as a reply to a question posed by local media persons during a roadshow in Agar Malwa under Madhya Pradesh's Dewas Lok Sabha constituency, which will go to polls in the last phase on May 19. She was conducting the roadshow in support of BJP candidate Mahendra Singh Solanki who resigned from the post of civil judge to contest the polls.