The Samata Kranti Dal (SKD) held its executive meeting here under chairmanship of Prashant Mishra.
Addressing the gathering, SKD founder-president and former Union Minister Braja Kishore Tripathy termed the Naveen Patnaik Government as the most corrupt and inept and alleged that it is running at the behest of bureaucrats.
Common people don’t get any work done without paying bribe in Government offices. Even, Ministers and MlAs are feeling helpless. Sharecroppers have remained neglected and SC and ST communities have been deprived of getting land.
The problem of the unemployed has been acute. Farmers are being compelled to commit suicide after failing to get due support from the Government.
He said both the Central and State Governments are not paying any heed to farmers’ demand of exemption of loans.
The Government has also failed to create irrigation facility for farmlands and to supply drinking water for people.
The much-hyped potato mission has ended in fiasco. Prices of essential commodities have skyrocketed for which both the Centre and the State Government are responsible. The rape of minor girls has become a daily phenomenon in the State. law and order scenario has worsened.
Thripathy further alleged elected PRI representatives have not been given power as per law.
The Samata Kranti Dal will fight against undemocratic designs of the ruling BJD, he said.
Former MlA Jagneswar Babu also slammed the BJD regime saying rampant corruption and misrule have prevailed in the State. He and many others opined that the Samata Kranti Dal is acting as a strong and united opposition outside the Assembly against the BJD Government.
Among others, Er Sarada Prasad Swain, SKD’s farmer cell convenor Pravash Samantara, Surendranath Dash, Aren Pani, Birakishore Parida, Sesadeva Patra, Diganta Dey, Brundaban Behera, Jalandhar Majhi, Sudhir Bramha, Pradeep Sahoo, Sunil Pattnaik, Ghenu Muduli, Kashinath Sardar, Bira Kuanr were present.