Pyari Mohan Mohapatra calls Odisha CM a 'traitor'

Last Updated: Friday, June 01, 2012, 22:26

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Tags: Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, Naveen Patnaik, BJD

New Delhi: Suspended from the BJD, dissident leader and Rajya Sabha MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra on Friday lashed out Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik calling him a "traitor".

"The entire party has been built by my hard labour and this man (Patanaik) has turned out to be traitor," Mohapatra told reporters, but ruled out a split in the party.

Cracking the whip in a bid to check dissidence in ruling BJD, Patnaik today suspended Mohapatra from the party and sacked two of his ministers from the government.

Venting his anger, Mohapatra, a bureaucrat-turned key strategist and an adviser to Patnaik for over a decade said, "I am shocked but not surprised. Because Patnaik has been planning for the last three months. This was after he saw my popularity in the panchayat elections and before that in the by-elections in the state assembly."

Asked whether he would create a division in the party, he said "(there is) no question of my breaking the party. The entire party has been built by my hard labour... Labour of lakhs of my workers. I have been running the party for so many years."

The sacked ministers are Anjali Behera, Cabinet minister in charge of Women and Child Development, and Minister of Commerce and Transport Sanjiv Sahu.

"This gentleman (Patnaik) turned out to be traitor. People of Odisha know it," Mohaptra said and added, "There are some people around him who have captured him and now he is on the evil path."

PTI

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First Published: Friday, June 01, 2012, 22:26

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sudhir chandra nayak - delhi
since indipendence no political leader of odisha has done good for the people of odisha,still we r a backward state in national picture.most people die in the state because of hunger, hunger caused by poverty, poverty caused by mismanagement of resources and mismanagement of resources caused by our corrupt bureacrats and grredy leaders.their moral duty replaced by their self interest.

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Biswajit Pratihari - Bhubaneswar
True to his words, Mr. Chief Minister did the ``right action at right time``. If done earlier, it would have a negative impact and had it been late also would have a question on the dynamism of Naveen Patnaik. Bravo.

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Rabi Kanungo - Bhubaneswar
It is better to ask Bijay Mohapatra, Nalini Mohanty (now no more), Rama Krushna Patnaik, Dilip Ray, Panchanan Kanungo, Pravat Samantray, Debashis Nayak, Braja Kishor Tripathy, Smt. Kamala Das, Hari Swain, Damodar Rout any many others’ reaction about Pyari Mohapatra`s suspension. The above named leaders were close associates of Biju Babu and were systematically victimized in a span of 12 years by Pyarimohan Mohapatra. The crook has been suspended. Better if he was dismissed.

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ashok.c - new delhi
well, mahapatra might have done much. but he should not have done such.!!..with all his great contributions to the growth of the party, can mahapatra justify his own action of attempting a coup ...as it has now become clear?he could have placed his grievances openly ...but his closed door operation in naveen`s absence almost forced the party leader to take some action so that the message goes. loud and clear..that indiscipline and conspiracy are detrimental for the party ...so got to be tackled accordingly. in fact, mahapatra left no option for naveen than to take action like this. lest the confidence of the party workers on the leader would have shaken. and that is more dangerous ...