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Godse, a Hindu, was free India’s first terrorist, says Kamal Haasan

Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan has said that free India’s first terrorist was a Hindu and his name was Nathu Ram Godse.

“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.

Addressing an election campaign in Aravakurichi area of Tamil Nadu, 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.”

Haasan said he had come here “seeking answers for that murder,” referring to Gandhi’s assassination in 1948. “Good Indians desire for equality and want the three colours in the tricolour to remain intact. I am a good Indian, will proudly proclaim that,” he added.

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