In his reaction to the BJD’s refusal to accept the Central programme figures presented by him recently, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday dared the State Government and the Chief Minister to prove his data wrong.
Welcoming retired administrator Ashok Tripathy and over a hundred of people of Badamba to the BJP at a party joining meeting here, Pradhan said, “I am inviting questioners Pratap Deb, Pratap Jena, Sanjay Dasburma, Arun Sahu et al to a tea table. I will give answer to each of their questions. But I do understand their problems. They have only deciphered the sayings of the Kalapahada of the Third Floor and this is their compulsion,” Dharmendra said but didn’t make it clear whom he referred to as Kalapahada. Reiterating that 5,449-km National Highways have been sanctioned during the Narendra Modi Government, he demanded that the Chief Minister soon tell the people that for how many days files containing 2,500-km NHs have been pending at his office for approval.“Third floor is not an individual property. It is a centre of hopes of 4.5 crore people. A mass movement has already started to free it (the third floor) from the clutches of the Kalapahada,” he said.