New Delhi: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu, was assassinated on January 30th 1948 at Delhi's Birla House. He was going to address a prayer meeting and was walking towards the platform. Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Gandhiji, was a Hindu nationalist and strongly felt that Gandhi had favoured Pakistan. He was also against Gandhiji's policy of non-violence.Godse shot at Gandhi point-blank. He shot three times. Here are some rare pics related to the last moments of Mahatma Gandhi:1. People placing flowers on the body of Mahatma Gandhi as he lays in state at Birla House after his assassination. 2. Gandhiji's body lays covered in a Khadar sheet as a priest recites scripts in Birla House.3. Members of Gandhiji's ashram surround his body in grief and shock.4. Gandhiji's funeral procession which surrounded by a huge crowd.5. Huge crowd followed Gandhiji's body as it was taken to perform the last rites.6. Both Hindu and Muslim followers of Gandhiji were present during his last journey.7. The body of Mahatma Gandhi on his route to cremation ceremony. Almost a million people attended the funeral procession.8. People pay tribute to their leader.9. The pyre of Mahatma Gandhi.10. Crowd watching the pyre of Mahatma Gandhi turning into huge flames.11. Ashes of Mahatma Gandhi collected after the funeral.12. Jawahar Lal Nehru paying tribute to the father of nation.13. The ashes of Mahatma Gandhi carried in Allhabad right before handing over to the sacred river Ganga.14. People gather around Howrah Bridge in Calcutta to be part of the final procession of Bapu.
