Morality has indeed taken a backseat in politics these days. And even when a leader swears by morality, it is hardly takenwithout suspicion.
City Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena faces serious charges of moral misconduct and murder. Yet, days after the sex CD episode surfaced with the city almost singeing in the wake of agitation by Congress and BJP demanding his resignation, the senior BJD leader looks unperturbed. For that matter, his party supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik too prefers to keep mum the same way he did during the days when another party colleague and Food Minister Sanjay Das Burma was in the eye of a storm over his links with AT chit fund firm.