bhubaneswar the odisha legislative assembly on saturday accepted the apology tendered by defence analyst abhijit iyermitra and dropped the matter pertaining to derogatory comments made by him on the state assembly and its membersthe assembly passed the recommendations of a house committee led by leader of opposition narasingha mishra which was looking into iyermitras remarks the assembly also asked the state government to provide materials to iyermitra to educate him about the art culture history and people of the state as suggested by the house panelnarasingha said the assembly accepted the apology keeping in mind the fact that he had tendered it voluntarily more importantly the assembly asked the state government to provide educative materials on the states art culture history and people because iyermitra had said he made the remarks out of his own stupidity narasingha told toiearlier in the day the house panel had submitted its report on the alleged breach of privilege against iyermitra the committee recommends that the august house may be magnanimous to consider and accept the apology begged by shri abhijit iyermitra for the statement made by him before the media against the honourable members of the august house and drop the matter the panel had said in the reportthe committee also observed that the person who accompanied iyermitra during his visit to different parts of the state should have told him about the rich culture of odisha narasingha did not elaborate on who the person wasassembly speaker pradip amat had constituted the house panel on september 20 after members cutting across party lines raised the issue of iyermitras derogatory statements citing alleged breach of privilegeiyermitra has been in jail since october 23 the day he first appeared before the house panel