Doing a short Schandillia.

Golwalkar sensed that the RSS would get into trouble once the details of Gandhi’s assassination were out. He acted immediately. On the day of the killing, January 30, 1948, he sent telegrams to RSS branches suspending operations for 13 days.
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The same day he also telegrammed Nehru, Patel and Devdas Gandhi with a message of condolence: “shocked at this cruel fatal attack and tragic loss of greatest personality."
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Next day he again wrote to Nehru referring to Godse as “some thoughtless perverted soul” who had “committed the heinous act of putting a sudden and ghastly end to the life of Poojya Mahatmaji by the bullet.” He called the killing unpardonable and an act of treason.
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The same day he again also wrote to Patel: “my heart is wrung with extreme agony. It is difficult to find words to condemn the person who committed this crime… What can be said about the man who has thus plunged whole world into indescribable grief."

Sanghi, I think.
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