‘CAG report on illegal property allotments to be published in Odia’
A meeting of the State’s senior BJP leaders was held here on Saturday to review the results of the recent general elections. The meeting tried to find out the reasons that led to the defeat of party nominees in five Parliamentary seats and 35 Assembly constituencies spread over south Odisha’s four districts, Ganjam, Gajapati, Koraput and Kandhamal.
The meeting was attended by BJP State president KV Singh Deo; the party’s State Prabhari Arun Singh and other senior leaders Bijay Mohapatra, Manmohan Samal, former Assembly Deputy Speaker Rama Chandra Panda and Ramakrushna Patnaik and Brahmapur unit president Bijay Kumar Swain.
The leaders attributed the party’s defeat to its poor organisational base at the grassroots level and lack of proper coordination between party workers and functionaries, sources said. The defeated candidates also given their views.
While addressing a media conference, KV Singh Deo alleged that the ruling BJD came to power using huge money and muscular power and misusing the police and district administrations.
Singh Deo said there are as many as 45 political leaders who are involved with the chit fund scam while the CBI has raided the houses of only three of them so far. The BJD is deeply involved in the dal, coal and mine scams, he said.
When asked about the CBI raid on the house of a former BJP MlA, Singh Deo said that whoever may be involved in the scam must be exposed.
Singh Deo alleged that the so-called arrest of top Maoist Sabyasachi Panda is a pre-scripted drama. Panda had been brought to Brahmapur with an understanding between the police, the BJD and the Maoist leader. The investigation of Panda must be handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Singh Deo demanded.
Arun Singh said the BJP is soon going to organise training camps for party nominees, party functionaries and workers in those State where the nominees lost in the elections.
Bijay Mohapatra alleged that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik deliberately ignored the guidelines of both the Supreme Court and High Court for the benefit his own party leaders like Kalpataru Das in allotment of Government lands and houses under the so-called discretionary quota. If no irregularity had been done in the allotment of plots and flats then why Kalpataru Das is surrendering the flats to the Government, he questioned.
The observations of the CAG on the illegal allotments of plots and flats to BJD leaders in Bhubaneswar would be published in Odia and distributed both in rural and urban areas soon for public scrutiny, Mohapatra added.