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A Mumbai government officer sparked calls for her firing after she tweeted a thank you to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin and called for roads named after the famous civil rights activist to be renamed.Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Nidhi Choudhari deleted the controversial comments after creating a wave of outrage.“What an exceptional celebration of 150th birth anniversary year is going on,” she wrote, the Hindu reports. “High time we remove his face from our currency, his statues from across the world, rename institutions/roads named after him! That would be a real tribute from all of us!”Also on rt.comIndian PM Modi sworn in for 2nd term in ceremony attended by Asian leaders & Bollywood starsShe added, “ThankU#Godse for 30.01.1948,” in reference to Gandhi’s killer and the date of his murder.Choudhari, the Deputy Municipal Commissioner in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), later explained that the tweet was “sarcastic” and “misrepresented.”Nationalist Congress …