NEW DELHI, AUGUST 29, 1949.

Prime Minister Nehru was giving a speech to a crowd of supporters, addressing the situation in Hyderabad and commenting on the overall situation in the country at the moment. It was independence day. After going through a series of key points in his speeches, Nehru concluded with the following remarks:

“[...] India has seen many fights, many famines, many struggles in all senses of the word. It has endured for centuries against colonialism. When I was developing my own political consciousness, so many years ago, growing aware of the world as I perceive it to be now, I had a view that the world could be a better place through the efforts of men and women, united in their beliefs of a better world. It took a lot of actions for us to be free once more, which we managed to do through an agreement with the United Kingdom. Indians as a whole did that, through the teachings of Bapu Gandhiji. It was through his lessons that we moved forward at the time of independence. It was through his lessons that we must move towards the construction of our new order now. A democratic, peaceful order - and I do not merely mean in the non-use of armaments but rather in the approach of the mind. We must rebuild, reconcile, reorganize.”

The Prime Minister left the podium with only a pair of bodyguards. He had often expressed a staunch distaste for them, claiming they were “bothersome” and that they “only contributed to disorderliness”. Unfortunately, this time, security was needed. Yudhishthira Paswan, a 21-year old rickshaw-puller, shot the Prime Minister three times in the head before he was tackled by security. Nehru was pronounced dead at the scene.

The tackled youngster was beaten by the security of the Prime Minister and the population, but remained alive. After a day of recovery, he was interrogated by security forces of India. It appears that Yudhishtira had been a card-carrying member of the RSS since he was 18 years old and was radicalized by the speech of M.S. Golwalkar in 1948. A small part of his manifesto had leaked to the press, which contained a collection of entries citing his frustration with the INC for what he perceived to be a “ridiculous amount of tolerance for Muslims”. When questioned by the police, Yudhishtira said that he was thoroughly inspired by the assassination of Gandhi, whom he called a “weakling”.

INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS

A clear link has been found between Nehru’s demise and the RSS’ outspoken criticisms towards the INC. A series of reports have detailed that the most salient issue is in Junagadh, where the Indian Army explicitly treated the RSS militias as a hostile force and helped protect the Pakistani army from them. The overall “lenient” treatment of Muslims by the Indian government and the peacekeeping efforts have also been seen as a betrayal and appear to have contributed to the culmination of this event.

SUMMARY

• Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, has been assassinated by an RSS-linked young man.

Edit on 09/10/2023: Per request of u/Andreis__ and approval of u/TheManIsNonStop, I have changed the date to August 29, 1949, to fit the timeline.