`Gandhi's last words weren't Hey Ram’

KOLLAM(Kerala): Mahatma Gandhi did not utter the words ‘Hey Ram’ when he fell to the bullets of an assassin 58 years ago, his personal attendant says.

“Gandhi did not say ‘Hey Ram’. In fact, he did not utter any word when the bullets fired from Nathuram Godse’s pistol pierced his chest,” Venkita Kalyanam, who claims to be a witness to the horrific event, told a press conference in Kollam on Monday.

Kalyanam (83) said he was just behind the Mahatma when he was shot dead in the Teen Murti area of New Delhi on January 30, 1948.