New Delhi sources have made a statement that Four years before Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, Nathuram Godse, the man who would shoot him three times in Delhi, tried to attack him with a knife. It was Bhiku Daji Bhilare who saved him. On July 19th, he died in Maharashtra, he was 98. Sources have stated that his cremation was attended by freedom fighters and legislators.
Meanwhile, a close friend and state Congress Vice President Ratnakar Mahajan said Bhiku was always engaged in social and public services, he was twice elected as a legislator from Mahabaleshwar constituency and was a very active figure fighting for rights and benefits of freedom fighters. Though active almost till his last breath, for the past few years, he rarely stepped out of his village.
Years later after India won its independence, Godse gunned down the Father of the Nation on January 30, 1948, at Birla House in Delhi. Currently, top Congress leaders, including party Vice President Rahul Gandhi condoled the death of Bhilare. Gandhi tweeted that "A staunch Gandhian and a freedom fighter, Bhilare Guru was a selfless custodian of the values we hold dear”.
