There is a difference between Nathuram Godse killing Mahatma Gandhi and the RSS killing him,” the court observed. Read: Rahul Gandhi isn’t the first Congress leader the RSS sued over Gandhi’s killingBut many historians think otherwise. On the larger RSS- Gandhi relation, he said, the Sangh was “ambivalent” towards him and when the rioting spread in 1946-47 and Gandhi tried to stop it, the RSS turned hostile towards him. “If Rahul Gandhi said the RSS is responsible for killing Gandhi, he is wrong, because Godse, who felt RSS was not radical enough, had by the time of the assassination) left the Sangh,” Guha said. This conflict was back in the spotlight on Tuesday after the Supreme Court ticked off Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, who had blamed the RSS for Gandhi’s assassination in a speech.

Source: Hindustan Times July 21, 2016 04:33 UTC