India, Oct. 21 -- If Gandhiji, Father of the Nation, can be murdered in daylight glare with thousands of praying devotees standing as mute witnesses to the nerve-shattering horror, anything can happen in this country. Gandhiji was our national apostle for non-violence, peace, fellowship, and communal harmony. In today's hate-ridden situation, he can be murdered again with impunity. As was demonstrated in public when an image of Gandhiji's effigy was shot at repeatedly by Puja Shakun Pandey, Hindu Mahasbha national secretary, in Aligarh, in public and in front of some admirers on Gandhiji's martyrdom day!

Such a preposterous act only proves that Gandhiji can be murdered again and again in devious ways such as by destroying his ideals, tarni...