This is a biggest bull$hit i have heard from many including Khalistani Sikhs in Punjab that because of Gandhi Bhagat Singh wasn't saved. Bhagat Singh's death was traumatizing setback to all Indians, even today. When people's emotions ran high they tried to find a culprit so that they can vent off their frustration on him. Gandhi was one of them, being demonized by white press all the time and always a subject of suspicion/critisism of Indians because of impossible looking mission of freedom he took into his hands. Propaganda by colonial press against Mahatma Gandhi after the death of Bhagat Singh was like hitting two birds with one stone. How English brain divided and ruled us could have been a better guide for today's Indians, who are blindly considering cunning revelations and doctored events of that time as honest.
People were helpless in front of British power, did nothing but stood besides the mighty walls of the Jail where he was hanged.
Bhagat Singh took the charge himself to become a martyr so that he can wake up sleeping Indians. To be martyr, was his mission and this is what he planned with his group. He never debated his innocence nor he opposed is conviction in court rooms but debated what he wanted to. He wrote a letter to the Viceroy asking him to be executed by firing squad and not by hanging; like POWs. Prannath Mehta visited him in the jail on 20 March, four days before his execution, with a draft letter for clemency, but he declined to sign it.
What was Gandhi supposed to do?
It is a disrespect of Bhagat Singh's vision and mission that he could have been saved by any means. Bhagat Singh was not a mighty capitalist with abundance of resources. His could have fled from Parliament but surrendered voluntarily with his friend. He could have been aware of the repercussions of his detention. His group was almost busted and demoralized remaining became informers. Freedom doesn't come cheap and only resource he was having was exposure of his ideology to the masses and sacrifice of his own life.
If Gandhi was afraid of Bhagat Singh's Influence then he was not suppose to go to jail and see him, then he must not be having any effect on British with this same logic. Bhagat Singh was hanged because colonial Dracula wanted to hang him. Where was Mohd. Ali Jinnah and JL Nehru at that time? Did Gandhi compromised his mission after negotiating Bhagat Singh's death with Britain?