Outrage Continues Even As Cops Book 13 Hindu Mahasabha Activists For Reenacting Mahatma Gandhi Assassination

A day after their crass act - recreating the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, which sent shockwaves across the country, the Uttar Pradesh Police have booked 13 people including some leaders of the fringe group in connection with the incident.

¡°The incident took place in a house in Naurangabad locality of Aligarh. Later, the video of the event went viral on social media,¡± Senior Superintendent of Police of Aligarh Akash Kulhary told PTI.

The despicable act on Wednesday, the video of which went viral showed a group of Hindu Maha Sabha activists firing at an effigy of the Mahatma while venerating Nathuram Godse, the Hindu Mahasabha man who killed the father of the nation in 1948. To make the event even more cringeworthy they had fake blood oozing out of the effigy after it was fired at.

The bizarre drama was led by Pooja Shakun Pandey, a top leader of the outfit which was founded by Savarkar.

Pandey who was last year appointed as the first judge of the first 'shariya-style' Hindu Court in Meerut said she was starting a tradition of recreating Gandhi¡¯s assassination every year on 30 January.

Pandey had earlier courted controversy by saying that if she was born before Nathuram Godse, she would have killed Mahatma Gandhi, because "he was responsible for the murder of Hindus during partition".

This is not the first time the notorious outfit has courted controversy. In the past they have attempted to build a Godse temple in Gwalior and even install a statue of the Gandhi assassin last year on October 2.

The Hindu Mahasabha which doesn't recognize the Indian Constitution, as it is secular, has in the past observed black day on Independence Day and Republic Day, claiming that the will only accept India as Hindu Rashtra. During the recent city renaming spree in UP the outfit had even demanded that Meerut should be named after the Gandhi killer.

Meanwhile the outrage over the crass act continued online.

See the blood thirsty of #HinduMahaSabha. After 71 years #Bapu has been killed they are not satisfied. pic.twitter.com/WZ15mcfKTK

¡ª Abdurrahman (@Abdurra78759526) January 31, 2019

#HinduMahasabha celebrating the sanghi terrorists who killed Gandhiji and claim themselves to be patriot hollow people will be exposed soon

¡ª Prof MOHAMMED ABDUL MAJEED (@mamajeed79) January 30, 2019

#hindumahasabha will get anger if anyone insult Bharathmatha.
But it will insult Bharathpitha.
???

¡ª Mohan Raj (@IammohanrajRaj) January 30, 2019

They killed #Gandhi . They continue to kill what he stood for. Ban #HinduMahasabha now.

¡ª Arif Iqbal (@TheAdvIqbal) January 31, 2019

HinduMahasabha is doing what ISIS is doing, make your religion uncomfortable for u! I m a Hindu brahmin and I am really not proud of an assassin.Nathuram could have protested gathered people or do whatever! But killing is not justified.#HinduMahasabha #Iamahindu #Nathunotamahatma

¡ª Comedian Siddharth Dash (@siddharth_dash) January 30, 2019

Kerala Cyber Warriors, a hacktivist group from Kerala has hacked the website of the outfit.

This is the second the hacktivists have defaced the Hindu Mahasabha website in recent times. In August last year, they had hacked the website and even posted photos and beef recipe on the website after Hindu Mahasabha leader and self styled godman Swami Chakrapani Maharaj made a ludicrous statement linking Kerala flood relief and beef.