The students and teachers of Jagulaipada village based Jayamala Nodal Primary school on Wednesday observed Gandhi Jayanti by paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and son of the soil Raghu Nayak.
The school students celebrated the function by offering their tributes to the father of the nation and also to their native hero Raghu Nayak, who grappled with Nathuram Godse and pinned him down after Godse fired lethal shots at Mahatma Gandhi at Birla House in New Delhi at on January 30, 1948. later, the teachers and students organised a prayer in front of the statues of Mahatma Gandhi and Raghu Nayak, which were installed six years’ back in the village by German based automobile company Daimler Chrysler.