Mass Education Minister of Odisha Samir Ranjan Dash on Saturday represented the Odisha government in clarifying the issue regarding a controversial government brochure that raised an uproar this week over it claiming Mahatma Gandhi's death 'accidental'. On Friday, the speaker of the assembly had directed the minister to give a statement in this regard. The Odisha Government had come under fire after a government booklet described Mahatma Gandhi's assassination as "accidental sequence of events." The matter sparked a row in the state assembly on Friday with both opposition Congress and ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) members condemning the incident. The booklet says that Gandhiji died in New Delhi at the Birla House on January 30, 1948, due to an ‘accidental sequence of events’.

Source: dna November 16, 2019 14:03 UTC