Dehradun, July 27 -- Uttarakhand BJP chief Mahendra Bhatt on Sunday apologised over his alleged remarks about students, saying that if anyone's sentiments were inadvertently hurt by any word or its pronunciation in his statement, he regretted it.

Bhatt said in a post on Facebook, "If anyone's sentiments were inadvertently hurt by any word or the pronunciation used in my statement yesterday, I regret it and offer my apologies. It was not my intention to hurt anyone's sentiments."

The apology came after Uttarakhand Congress president Ganesh Godiyal criticised Bhatt over his alleged remarks on students amid the ongoing controversy surrounding examination irregularities and the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

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