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Is Indian Partition is Politician's wish or people's Desire

Recently I had a discussion with a friend related to Indian partition and Gandhi’s death. The consensus seems there is enough justification for Nathuram Godse’s anger. The percentage of people believe Godse being a martyr is growing from last decade or so,  whereas in 1950 only very cult  RSS followers believed in Godse argument. But with a string of BJP governments and Hindutva religious spread changed the popularity of the argument. The argument goes like this  “ Gandhi could have stopped the partition but he did not stop it as he only wants Nehru to be PM of India. Gandhi/Nehru had a cloud to convince Jinnah and they did not put enough efforts to stop it due to their selfish needs over the country".   Gandhi has a magic wand to stop the partition and he did not do it?.  But the argument I want to make is it is the people’s choice. They want the partition, plain, and simple. Yes India Had Elections before Independence How many of us kn...