New Delhi | Actor turned politician and chief of Makkal Needhi Maiam, Kamal Haasan was today granted anticipatory bail by the Madurai bench of Madras High Court for his remark on Mahatma Gandhi’s murderer Nathuram Godse.
A case was filed against Kamal Haasan by the Hindu Munnani party after Haasan while campaigning for his party candidate S Mohanraj in the Aravakkurichi assembly by-poll said that the first terrorist in Independent India was a Hindu in reference to Nathuram Godse.
“I’m not saying this because there a lot of Muslims here. I said this in front of Gandhi’s statue. The first terrorist of independent India was a Hindu,” Kamal Haasan said, as he spoke to voters from a campaign van. “His name was Nathuram Godse.” Nathuram Godse shot Mahatma Gandhi on January 30, 1948.
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