--CM should resign: Bhupinder,
Prasad
KISHORE MANGARAJ
BHUBANESWAR:
Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly Bhupinder Singh and Congress Chief
Whip Prasad Harichandan on Sunday demanded resignation of Chief Minister Naveen
Patnaik for the alleged nexus of the State Government with the Maoists and also
demanded a probe into the case by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Addressing Mediapersons here,
Singh said the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)
in its recent report pointed out large scale irregularities in various departments
of the State Government including port development in the State. The Government
has extended extra favour to companies in development of five minor port
projects at Astaranga, Chudamani, Dhamara, Gopalpur and Subarnarekha under
Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode, he
alleged.
In the alleged multi-crore Dal
scam under the supplementary nutrition programme and the mid-day meal scheme,
the CAG report observed that there was a
loss to the tune of Rs 65 crore to the procurement of Dal at a higher price of Rs
75 per kg than the wholesale market price at Rs 46 per kg.
Congress Chief Whip Prasad
Harichandan said, “We have submitted the facts and figures in the Assembly very
much earlier about the involvement of State Government with the Maoists in the
State. Now, the Maoist interlocutor Dandapani Mohanty and Rajya Sabha member
Pyari Mohan Mohapatra said in a Press conference that the Government had funded
Rs 6 crore to the Maoists to release the then Collector Malkangiri Vineel Krishna
and MLA Jhina Hikaka.”
Harichandan alleged that the
Chief Minister, Government Officers and BJD leaders are having a good nexus
with Maoists in the State. NIA should probe into the matter, he demanded.
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