The Mamita Meher murder case has caused more flutter than the weirdest, craziest crime event of Odisha in the new millennium. Even after nabbing the accused and getting a cool confession by the cruel guy to having killed the girl in a very heinous manner, the political opponents are not willing to calm down. Out of one hundred agitators in the bandwagon, not one soul has ceased to scream ‘foul’. The hopelessly vanquished political opponents have no other alternative left except resorting to theatrics.
The political opponents of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik have become increasingly hopeless about their marred future. This has become undeniable particularly in the fifth term of Naveen rule, during which countless opponents have deserted age-old home turf to merge into the BJD fold just to remain live in public domain. The Congress has been reduced to a mere name and the mighty BJP is only an insignificant midget in the Naveen-ruled State.
During this joyful period for the BJD when hearts of the opponents are constantly being roasted on fire, the Mamita case happened. The BJP biggies of Odisha imagined the full moon did land in hand and they would make all wishes and wildest dreams come true. They decided to put up the Mamita case as the biggest issue of the decade, which would easily overthrow the Naveen administration.
The primary Mamita story need not be told elaborately as everyone knows the chronology of events. What the common folks fail to figure out is how the incumbent Minister of State for Home Dibya Shankar Mishra has no role in the crime in any manner at least so far as the investigation is unfolding the story methodically without having been able to lay hand on one piece of evidence of the Minister’s complicity.
A TV channel has morphed visuals to drive people into believing that Nishra and the self-confessed psychopathic killer are great pals. The channel even went on showing a college event as that happening at a small-time school owned and run by the prime accused Govinda Sahu. The Sahu fellow had personally hired Mamita as the principal of the little ownership school. Mamita was never a part of the college. The members of the governing body of the college too never cared about her. The Minister has repeatedly pleaded with people or accusers to put up one piece of evidence to effect his self-dismissal. But none of the screamers has been able to satisfy this single humblest demand.
Santosh Singh Saluja, a highly-respectable MLA, has also joined hands with headless political opponents in the matter. He has said publicly that Dibya Shankar had even gone out of the way to have transported the killer, the would-be victim and himself to his Raipur flat for persuading Mamita to desist from exposing the dark deeds of Govinda, his bosom buddy. Thorough research indicates this has not happened as the housing complex staff particularly keeping those keeping vigil on people’s movement would say.
If by some trick, the three have entered and exited by intoxicating the janitors and guards to faintness, this argument would of course fail. But the investigating agency alone will come up with that core truth. Further, the family members of Mamita have trashed this allegation openly in a Press event even while mourning. Mamita had not gone out of town even for half a day.
The biggest benefactor of the Mahalinga college on record, former Union Minister Bhakta Charan Das, now merrily paints Dibya Shankar as his handmade product lately gone astray.
As per official information, he has organised maximum grants for the worthy college during his heydays but pins blames on the Minister for having made funds available to Govinda due to personal relationship. People are deceptively told by Bhakta Das that because of indiscriminate public grants of money to Gobind’s institution, the Minister had best of times at the college including luxury stay and fun. All this have been dispelled thoroughly by the members of the college governing body.
Lastly, to the most shocking part of the story: Soumya Ranajan Patnaik, the pioneer of corporate media in Odisha, too has gone crazy in the Mamita matter. He has compared the shameful CM Janaki Ballav Patnaik-AG Indrajit Roy friendship episode with Naveen being kind to Dibya Shankar in the Mamita Meher controversy. What Soumyababu has failed to figure out is that in the Anjana Mishra molestation matter, the then Advocate General Roy was directly accused by a living and kicking Anjana as a rapist-molester whom JB Patnaik, the Chief Minster, never dropped or punished despite tumultuous State-wide outcry. Anjana is a live victim nursing injuries even today. JB Patnaik for reasons best known to him and God kept shielding Indrajit until he himself got unceremoniously dislodged by the Congress high command. The BJD was ushered in and has been gaining ground since then doing better for every successive term across five elections in 21 long years.
But Mamita Meher never lived to identify the murderer. Meanwhile, Govinda Sahu has been nabbed and he has confessed to the heinous crime.
Further, till date, not an iota of evidence has been put up by anyone living, man or beast, against Dibya Shankar. Law is taking its course which is way beyond the State police system. The law courts are being ignored by the agitating men and women seemingly because all of them are otherwise mad.