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Idukki Power minister M M Mani regrets gaffe on Nehru

IDUKKI: Power minister M M Mani on Friday expressed regrets for a gaffe he had made at a function in Kattappana a day ago.

While delivering the keynote address of 66th all India co-operative week celebrations, the minister said that “today (Thursday, November 14) is an auspicious day. This is the day on which Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru breathed his last .”


The minister mixing up Nehru’s birthday with that of his date of death got wide circulation on social media . Mani had referred to Nehru for highlighting the major role the latter had played in shaping up cooperative institutions in the country.

In a Facebook post on Friday, the minister said he “deeply regret the mistake” made at Kattappana.

Nehru, India’s first prime minister, was born on November 14, 1889. He died on May 27, 1964.

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