‘Stop Odia entrepreneur hunt, arrest non-Odia fraud companies’

--Why Govt maintains silence to conduct raid on non Odia business firms: K’ Sena

BHUBANESWAR: “The State Government has started Odia entrepreneur hunt by using Vigilance and Crime Branch police, but failed to take exemplary action against the non-Odia business firms which is completely against the State’s interest,” said Kalinga Sena supremo Hemant Rath here on Monday.

Rath said the non-Odia businessmen, builders and industrialists were doing monopoly in the State from the independence of the country as there were a few Odia counterparts at that time. When a good number of entrepreneurs came to the market with their hard work and started controlling the business and few industries in the State by challenging the non-Odias which helped to boost the economy of the State, they got trapped by the State owned investigative agencies, he added.

He alleged that Naveen Patnaik, who hates Odia language, has turned into a death god for the Odia entrepreneurs and the State owned investigative agencies are roaming around with the death rope, while he invites the non-Odia industries and business firms to settle in the State which is very unfortunate, he added.

Rath said the non-Odia industrialists are looting the natural resources like mines, minerals, water and lands by destroying the biodiversity of the State in the name of industrial development, but the poor Odias are silently bearing the charges leveled by the Government. “Supporting non-Odia entrepreneurs and chocking the throats of Odia counterparts is not growth but destruction of the entrepreneurial spirit of the Odias,” Rath said.

“If the Government not stops Odia entrepreneur hunt, the Sena would start ‘non-Odia Hatao Abhiyan’ and they would compel the non-Odia looter entrepreneurs to leave the State,” Rath cautioned.