Fate of State not safe in Naveen’s hand: Jatish Mohanty

BHUBANESWAR: Samruddha Odisha president Jatish Mohanty on Friday alleged that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has diminished the respect of the State in the foreign land during his first visit to foreign country in his twelve years tenure.

Mohanty said the Chief Minister avoided the London based Odia students request who had taken permission from the Chief Minister’s Office protocol to meet and welcome Patnaik at the Heathro airport in London. Mohanty said the student leader Sounik Kajal Kumar Dash informed him over phone about the issue.

Sounik said during his meeting with Chief Minister they would likely to raise over PSW visa for Indian Students which has stopped by the UK Government, safety issues of Indian students as well as Odia students those are studying in Europe, but Chief Minister did not allow him audience.

On the other hand, Mohanty questioned that the Chief Minister who never ever called a Press meet in his 12 years tenure, what he will speak at the seminar of the University of Sussex. Patnaik only shows his face on some particular issues where he speaks like a radio and journalists hear that and who delivers speech with the help of written speech in the public meetings, what he will say in the foreign land, Mohanty added.

Only announcing the tribal leader PA Sangma’s name as presidential candidate can not help in the development of the tribal people, Mohanty said adding, “If he has initiated development works in the tribal people by avoiding companies’ promotion, then why he denies attending the meeting at the Institute of Development Studies?”

Mohnaty said still now tribal people are not getting basic needs from the State, some tribal school has no teacher, no drinking water facilities in the tribal villages and they are dieing due to diarrhea. The Chief Minister can take peoples of Odisha for a ride, but he could not do this in front of the intellectual mass of the foreign country, he said.

“The international and national media are criticising the scaring nature of the Chief Minister in the foreign land. Fate of the State is not safe in Naveen Patnaik’s hand,” he ended.