Former Nabarangpur Congress MP Pradeep Majhi has been using Twitter for slamming Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his Government for various scams and failures and also for calling up Patnaik to wake up to people’s cause. Majhi’s twitter account is ‘#wakeupnaveen’. He has raised issues like Gangapatna land scam, chit fund scam and jaundice outbreak at Sambalpur. In his tweets, the Congress leader has compared the Naveen Government with that of Nigeria’s Boko Haram stating that there was little difference between the two. While Boko Haram has been practicing terrorism, Patnaik is practicing financial terrorism, he alleged.
“Deres little difference between #bokoharam & @bjd_odisha, 1 is spreading violent terrorism, the other financial terrorism via chit fund scam,” the tweet read. “Patra commission is designed as black hole of chit fund investigation everything can go inside but nothing ever comes out f it,” said another tweet. Yet another tweet reads, “On chit fund mega scam @bjd_odisha says @BJP4India is settling scores, 2me it luks lyk a fixed match & we odias wl never get back our crores”
“This is a social media campaign. I have named it as wakeupnaveen because I personally I feel that Naveen has been sleeping for the last 15 years. Since he has only made promises and nothing else, he needs to wake-up from his slumber. He can do it but he is not doing it. Through the campaign I am urging him to wake up to the basic problems of the people,” Majhi told a local TV news channel.
Meanwhile, BJD spokesperson Pratap Jena in his reaction said, “Everyone has a right to give his opinion on the social media like twitter, no one has any objection to it but it should be acceptable. Naveen Patnaik is always in the wake-up mode. Had not it been so, how has was elected so many times, and is being praised by one and all.”