State Government is anti-people and corrupted and the Opposition betrayed the mass, so that public must opt for an alternative,” said speakers attending a meeting on ‘Kishan Pattnaik Smarane Bikalpa Ra Rupa Rekha’ organised by the Utkal Bikasha Juba Parisada here on Saturday evening.
Farmer leader lingaraj in his speech urged the Chief Minister to beg public apology citing the incident of bonded labourers whose palms were chopped off because of the administration’s utter failure to check migration of workers. The distress sale of paddy in Western Odisha was the result of Government negligence and inefficiency, he added.
Social activist Prafulla Samantara branded the Government in the Centre and in the State as partners to cheat the people. “Why Odisha Government is not closing Posco project when the same UN’s representatives have opposed it,” he questioned, adding, “If the Government sells natural mining resources like iron ore, manganese and chromites in market price, Odisha will be the richest province in the world.”
He said the Ministers including Chief Minister of the State are corrupt. Naveen Patnaik is the mastermind in all mega loot including coal and land, he expressed.
Anti-liquor movement leader Padma Charan Nayak expressed grave concern over the State Government’s apathetic attitude to stop liquor selling in the State. “This is a madua (alcoholic) Government,” he said and demanded that the State to implement former Chief Minister Nabakrushna Choudhury’s decision for total prohibition in the State. Presiding over the meeting Debiprasad Prusti described the Bikalpa (alternative) theme and narrated the problems of poverty, power crises, education system, violence against women, Bhushan killing and illegal land acquisition of corporate houses in the State.Among others, Dr Kamalakanta Kar and Dr Madhusudan Mishra also spoke in the meeting about the health and education problems.