A heated controversy rocked the Odisha Legislative Assembly on Thursday after BJP MLA Santosh Khatua made controversial remarks about Mahatma Gandhi during a budget discussion, prompting fierce protests from opposition parties BJD and Congress.

The opposition members stormed the well of the House, raised slogans, and later staged a silent dharna at Gandhi’s statue within the assembly premises, demanding an apology and the expunging of the remarks from the official records.

The pandemonium unfolded during the debate on the demands for grants of the Home and General Administration departments. While speaking, BJP MLA Santosh Khatua from Cuttack reportedly suggested that Gandhi had supported the partition of India—a claim that drew immediate and vehement backlash from BJD and Congress legis

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