With ample issues in its hand like the chit fund scam, mining scam, land and house allotment scam and farmer issues, the BJP would corner the BJD Government during the Winter Session of the State Assembly that begins from Thursday.
In the legislature party meeting held at the BJP office here on Wednesday, party MlAs and senior leaders prepared a blueprint of sensitive issues which would be raised in the Assembly to take on the Government.
BJP State president and Patnagarh MlA KV Singh Deo said the party would raise several issues in the month-long session, but it would particularly focus on some sensitive issues which have been rocking the State currently.
Singh Deo said the party would raise the issues of the chit fund scam and the State Government’s involvement in different chit fund companies and their owners. “Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had earlier said his party was not involved in the scam, but then how sitting BJD MP, MlA, former MlA and other leaders have been arrested by the CBI recently,” asked he. BJP legislature Party leader Basanta Panda said the party would raise the issues of land and house allotment scam, mining scam, distribution of money to journalists by a BJD MP and farmer suicide issues and demand to know the Government’s stand on these matters. The party would demand to make the Taskforce report on land and house allotment scam public.
BJP MlA Pradip Purohit said the party would demand a statement from the Chief Minister in the House on the chit fund scam. It would also raise the issues relating to migrant labourers’ problem in western Odisha and farmer suicides.
Among others, Brajarajnagar MlA Radharani Panda, Kuchinda MlA Rabinarayan Nayak, Deogarh MlA Nitesh Gangdeb, Khariar MlA Duryodhan Majhi, Chilika MlA Bibhuti Bhushan Harichandan and party leaders like Bijay Mohapatra, Suresh Pujari, Samir De, Surama Padhi and Sarada Prasad Satpathy were present in the meeting.