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Booklet row: Mahatma's 'accidental death' an unintended error, says Odisha

Necessary correction will be made in the booklet, it will be re-printed and circulated among the students within a month, the Odisha minister told the house

Mahatma Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi

Press Trust of India Bhubaneswar
Facing widespread criticism over an official booklet describing Mahatama Gandhi's death as an "accident", the Odisha government on Saturday said it was an inadvertent mistake and there was no intention to feed wrong information to the children or twist the sequence of events.

School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash came out with the government response to the controversy in the state Assembly following a direction from Speaker S N Patro in this regard on Friday.
 
Dash said the government has already withdrawn the booklet.
 
An official has been disengaged and two others have been asked to give explanation

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