Gujarat: Official suspended for organizing elocution competition on & My Role Model-Godse; for students

The Gujarat government on Wednesday suspended a probationary youth development officer for organizing a speech competition for students of class 5-8 with the topic ‘My Role Model – Nathuram Godse’.

A probationary Class-2 District Youth Development Officer for the Valsad district, Mitaben Gavli was suspended immediately after Gujarat Minister Harsh Saghavi, assured action.

He was quoted as saying, “I have ordered an inquiry into this incident. We will take action against the guilty.”

The private school management Kusum Vidhyalaya stated that it had only hosted the event and not organized it.

Gavi’s suspension order stated, “In the district-level competition held on 14 February, schoolchildren were given three subjects to choose from. One of the subjects provided by Gavli was ‘My Role Model – Nathuram Godse’. The other two subjects were – ‘I like only those birds who fly in the sky and ‘I will become a scientist but will not go to the US.”

The incident came to light on 16 February, when local newspapers carried reports about the selection of such a controversial subject for the competition. A girl student had won the elocution competition for speaking on the subject ‘My Role Model – Nathuram Godse,’ the Hindu hardliner who assassinated the father of our nation Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. Godse was executed in 1949 for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.

The suspension order stated that the officer should have taken due care in selecting subjects despite being a responsible government official.

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