it was a sad ocassion but it was unavoidable as Mahatma has accepted seperate pakistan and our motherland (bharatmata)our sacred rivers are seperated from us , so the person who has fired Mahatma was a big patriot and he fired him just to end his life not his thoughts he was respecting him and met him twice before firing him. he has said a person should not be greater than nation ,one cannot take decision to divide my motherland into pieces. As it was happened he finished mahatmaji and he was ready to get hanged for this .. as firing he kept gun on the floor and stood silently infront of mahatmajis body ,he was brave but was a extremist , and was a great patriot,so sometimes he was correct but to end someones life is not accepted AT ALLLLL. Bottom line is he his thoughts was noble but his decision to end mahatmaji was not acceptable to anybody in India. His final wish was: my ashes should be kept as it is, till most sacred sindhu river comes back to my motherland ......