On December 23, 1926, Swami Shraddhananda fell a victim to the knife of a Muslim assailant Abdul Rashid and a few days later, while he was speaking at the Gauhati Congress of the Congress party, said, %u201CAbdul Rashid is my Brother. %u2026. Now you will perhaps understand why I have called Abdul Rashid a brother, and I repeat it. I do not even regard him as guilty of Swami%u2019s murder. Guilty indeed are all those who excited feelings of hatred against one another%u201D.
