Taking action against former MLAs for occupying Government quarters in Bhubaneswar, Assembly Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro on Monday directed them to vacate the houses at the earliest.
A total of 21 ex-MLAs, including former Ministers, were asked to leave the quarters, failing which electricity connection and water supply to the houses would be disconnected, the Speaker said.
This is the list of the ex-MLAs, whose Government quarters are still occupied: Basant Kumar Panda, Late Bed Prakash Agarwalla, Bhujabal Majhi, Bibhuti Bhushan Harichandan, Bijayashree Routray, Damodar Rout, Debasish Nayak, Dhaneswar Majhi, Golak Bihari Naik, Jugal Kishore Pattnaik, Kishore Chandra Tarai, Mahesh Sahoo,
Nandini Devi, Nitesh Gangadeb, Pravat Kumar Tripathy, Praveen Chandra Bhanjadeo, Pushpendra Singh Deo, Rabi Narayan Naik, Ramesh Chandra Majhi, Sananda Marandi and Sanjay Dasburma.
Meanwhile, action has been taken against ex-MLAs Bhujabal Majhi and Rabi Narayan Naik by cancelling allotment for occupying more than one Government quarter.
Earlier, two former MLAs, Pramila Giri and Anjali Behera, had been evicted from the quarters in 2011 and 2016, respectively.