“Do you mean to tell the world that Gandhi’s assassins are coming to power in India?” In a powerful speech during an old parliamentary debate, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee firmly rejected attempts to associate Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin, Nathuram Godse, with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a hindutva organisation of which the BJP is considered to be a political wing. Responding to remarks made in the House, Vajpayee objected to the repeated invocation of Godse’s name in this