On 27 January 1948, three days before Gandhi was murdered, Digvijai Nath exhorted Hindu militants to kill the Mahatma. This call – the first and only public revelation of the conspiracy ahead of the assassination – is believed to have injected a sense of urgency among those who had to carry out the task. Referring to the mahant’s poisonous speech, the Commission of Inquiry into Conspiracy to Murder Mahatma Gandhi observed:
