Bhubaneshwar, July 15 -- Biju Janata Dal chief Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday heavily criticised the Odisha government, calling their administration a "failed system" and blamed their inaction for the death of a Balasore college student, who self-immolated herself in protest over sexual harassment by her teacher.

Patnaik said that her death "was not an accident" but a result of system that "remained silent instead of helping."

"It is even more disturbing to think how a failed system can take someone's life. The most painful part is that this was not an accident, but rather the result of a system that remained silent instead of helping. Struggling for justice, the girl ultimately closed her eyes," Naveen Patnaik said in a post on X.

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