Himanta apologises amid row over his post on 'Shudras' duties' — 'incorrect translation by my team'

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Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has apologised for uploading a post with casteist remarks on his social media platforms saying that his team made an incorrect translation of a verse from the Bhagavad Gita...

Sarma in a post on X and Facebook on Thursday night said that he uploads one verse of Bhagavad Gita every morning on his social media handles, which have posted 668 Slokas till date...

Recently one of my team members posted a sloka from Chapter 18 verse 44 with an incorrect translation..

On December 26, Sarma had uploaded an audio-visual post on his social media handles like X and Facebook that he claimed to be from Sloka 44 of Sanyas Yoga from the 18th chapter of Gita...

The animated video stated that farming, cow-rearing and commerce are habitual and natural duties of the Vaishya, while serving the three varnas Brahman, Kshatriya and Vaishya is the natural duty of the Shudras..