AICC in-charge of the party in Odisha BK Hariprasad rushed to Bhubaneswar on Saturday evening after leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Bhupinder Singh and the party’s legislative party secretary Anup Sai quit the Congress and joined the ruling BJD.
Hariprasad termed the deserters as “migratory birds” and “opportunists” and said the Congress would not be affected one bit by it.He said the holding of the Pradesh Election Committee (PEC) meeting in New Delhi was nothing unusual and that was only an alibi cited by Bhupinder Singh. Hariprasad questioned the so-called righteous politics of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Congress MP from Kalahandi Bhakta Charan Das said it is now clear that Singh was in the Chief Minister’s pocket for the last five years. He termed Singh’s act as a “tainted chapter in the history of democratic politics” and called it a nasty example of real horse-trading.