After Nitish, Naveen rants UPA's ‘discrimination’

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 09, 2011, 17:38

Tags: Naveen Patnaik, UPA, discrimination, Orissa

Cuttack: Taking a cue from his Bihar counterpart, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday accused the Congress-led UPA government of adopting a discriminatory policy towards the state.

Patnaik said this at a meeting of the ruling BJD's youth wing here to mark the occasion of "Kranti Diwas."

"The Centre is giving special package to states on political consideration," Patnaik alleged adding that Orissa was a "victim" of UPA government's discriminatory policy.

Patnaik's outburst against the Centre came a day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made similar allegations in Patna.

Both Patnaik and Kumar made statements in reference to Centre's package of Rs 21,614 crore to West Bengal on Saturday.

Orissa contributed crores of rupees to the Centre through different ways, Patnaik said, adding there had been no specific plan or package for the poor state.

"Under the federal structure, the Centre has specific responsibility to look after the poor states. However, Orissa's interest had not been taken care of by the Congress-led UPA government which came to power with a slogan to run the government for aam admi," Patnaik said.

PTI

First Published: Tuesday, August 09, 2011, 17:38

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Pradip Kumar Pal - Bhubaneswar
no body seems to be concerned about 30000 odd engineering ,mba, mca aspirants who appeared ojee 2011.as if nothing like engineering, joint entrance etc exist on this part of the earth called odisha.

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Ajay Gupta - Rajgangpur
dear mr cm before complaining on have u actually tried finding out the true outcome of your governance over last decade??????????

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COL M K PRADHAN [RETD] - BHUBANESWAR
why donot you run a programe which state has got how much grant from the center to expose the the double standard of the center and also educate the people of this nation

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Dilip Kumar Misra - New York
this upa government believes in arm twisting tactis. mamata banarjee did that and got benefits. mamata`s twisting is very hard and painful - manmohan and pranab and the team tremble with the slightest shaking. that is the motto and principles of this corruption prone government. poor bihar and orissa to live with sufferings. find ways to twist arms otherwise blame god and suffer.