Mahatma Gandhi remembered in TN, Puducherry

Mahatma Gandhi was remembered in Tamil Nadu on Thursday on his 72nd death anniversary, with leaders paying tributes.

Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan described Gandhi as "one of the most important ambassadors of world peace" and termed his assassin, Nathuram Godse, an "allegedly patriotic Indian."
Haasan, who had courted controversy last year for his statement that free India's "first extremist was a Hindu", referring to Godse, condemned Gandhi's killing, calling it the "lowest and meanest from of criticism."
At a poll rally in Karur district in May 2019, Haasan had said "free India's first extremist was a Hindu, his name is Nathuram Godse. There it (extremism, apparently) starts."