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Why did Gandhi ji and his Relativeyou decide to commit suicide

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Meat, smoking, stealing and thought of committing suicide: How this Gujarat school got it horribly wrong about MK Gandhi

Nirwa Mehta | 14 October, 2019

Mahatma Gandhi (image: tribuneindia.com)

A school in Gujarat, run by Sufalam Shala Vikas Sankul, asked what did Mahatma Gandhi do to commit suicide to class 9 students in their internal evaluation exams.

Class 9 students were asked ‘What did Gandhiji do to commit suicide?’ (Gandhiji e aapghat karwa maate shu karyu?). When the media reports came out of the above question being asked to school students, my first instinct was to distrust the reports because why would any school ask such a question. I also thought that perhaps this was misinterpreted as question might be translated into English from Gujarati.

Gujarat government had already sent a notice to the school and an inquiry has also been initiated against the teacher who set the paper. It became all the more important to verify whether the state government acted in haste based on media reports?

Explanation:

The school teacher really did ask this.

To begin with, Mahatma Gandhi never committed suicide. He was assassinated by Nathuram Godse on 30th January, 1948. The school trust convener, SP Patel, had justified the question by giving a bizarre explanation that the reference to the question on Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘thought’ on committing suicide is there in the Gujarat State School Textbook Board (GSSTB) curriculum textbook. He added that his autobiography ‘My Experiments With Truth’ (Satya Na Prayogo) also mentioned his ‘thoughts’ on committing suicide. Patel then added that he saw nothing wrong in the question.