Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday urged the BJD Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members to rise to the expectations of the people of Odisha by raising issues of the State’s interest in the Parliament.
In a letter to the MPs, the CM told them that the responsibility of the BJD has increased after the party was voted to power for the fifth consecutive time in the State.
Also for Lok Sabha, the BJD has got the largest number of MP seats.
The CM said the people supported the BJD’s decision to field women in one-third of seats in the Lok Sabha. He said he was impressed by the performance of the women MPs of the party in the Parliament.
He said the BJD has a right balance of both experienced and new MPs in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and expected that it would help represent the issues of all sections of people, like women, youths, SCs and STs.
He told the MPs to apprise him on their performance once in every two months by meeting the electorates in their respective constituencies and mitigating their problems.