The Congress on Wednesday alleged that BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is promoting leaders, who are embroiled in various scams, by giving tickets for various Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies for the upcoming polls.
“Pramia Mallick was involved in the Rs 700-crore dal scam in 2011. The case was suppressed and no action was taken against her. She was again fielded by the BJD and made BJD Mahila president. Surjya Narayan’s son Biplab Patra was involved in GA plot allotment scam.
No action was taken, Surjya Narayan was made Minister again,” pointed out Congress spokespersons Ashok Samal and Nikunja Pasayat at a Press meet here.
They too alleged that former Ministers Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Arun Sahu, Sanjay Dasburma and Debi Mishra, MPs Ramchandra Hansda and Rabindra Jena and MLAs Pravat Tripathy, Pranab Balabant Ray, Prabhat Biswal are being promoted by the BJD despite their alleged complicity in the multi-crore chit fund scam. MP Hansda and MLAs Tripathy and Biswal had been arrested by the CBI, they said.
They said people of Odisha are all watching and would give a befitting reply in the upcoming General elections.