Dismissal of Former IIC of Pipili PS is a Classic Instance of How Naveen is Hoodwinking the People

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

The Director General of Orissa Police has dismissed the former Inspector-In-Charge of Pipili Police Station, Amulya Champatiray, for serious dereliction in duty that has endangered the life of a Dalit girl and ruined her family. The order is being used to hoodwink the people.

The guilt of Champatiray is discernible to naked eyes. So, people are happy over his dismissal. But the dismissal is discernibly farcical, because it is not legal and cannot survive the test of law.

Champatiray had protected the alleged rapists of Pipili by not registering FIR on receipt of the allegation of gang rape and of attempt to murder that has sent the victim into coma.

So, he deserves the severest of punishment and deserves no sympathy.

But, with the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik as the Police (Home) Minister, his dismissal is crafted so cunningly that despite his offenses, he shall get back his service by challenging the order of dismissal in appropriate Court of law; because no Court will allow rape of the Constitution by any Governmental authority. Then, the present mass demand for action against him shall stand defeated.

Let us see how.

The DGP has dismissed Champatiray under Article 311 (2) (b) of the Constitution of India. But in doing so, the DGP has gone against this provision.

Willfully?

If yes, then certainly under instruction of the Chief Minister, for it is he, who was eager to hoodwink the people in Panchayat polls, in this matter.

Let us take a cursory look at the scenario before looking at this constitutional provision.

The media exposed the Pipili felony and then only the shocked family members of the victim could resurrect their shattered courage to disclose the names of the rapists, pointing out how the police has protected them because of their area MLA Pradip Maharathi.

Maharathi tried to intimidate the media, threatening media persons for having relied upon the victim’s family members to link his name to the crime.

This threat instantly ignited an unprecedented public rallying with the media, spearheaded by Media Unity for Freedom of Press (MUFP).

Maharathi had to resign from ministership and to beg apology to media, as people of Orissa, through non-BJD political parties, civil societies, NGOs, trade unions et al had woke up to form, for the first time in the history of Orissa, a platform of solidarity, which they named ‘Orissa Gana Samaj’ against the unprecedented misrule.

This mass awakening fidgeted the CM, specifically as he was to face the people in Panchayat electioneering, like never before.

He was eager to show that the fellows involved with the felony were punished.

Champatiray was transferred from the Pipili Police Station and as that was not enough to assuage public wrath, was put under suspension.

Maharathi was asked to resign and his resignation was accepted, keeping the public in dark about the reason of his resignation while allowing him to boast of having taken moral responsibility for the wrong done to the dalit girl in his constituency.

The layer of protection thus shattered, the gang-rapists, whom the police had known from the beginning, were arrested one after another.

Added to the judicial inquiry invented earlier to hoodwink the people, Maharathi’s resignation, arrest of the rapists and Champatiray’s suspension should have pain-killing effect on mass psyche, the Chief Minister must have thought. But pain in mass mind was becoming more acute.

It was urgent for the CM to dazzle the Panchayat voters with a blaze of severe action against officials but for whose protection the criminals could never have escaped the law for so long a time.

Therefore, the government has transferred Puri district Superintendent of Police Amitendranath Sinha and dismissed the then Pipili IIC, Champatiray from service.

No better cover could have been invented to hide the misrule as exposed in Pipili gang rape case. The CM is now equipped with new arsenals to save himself from public wrath in Pipili context. His mouthpieces have already started saying that Naveen’s administration is so clean that provisions of instant dismissal under Article 311 (2) (b) have, for the first time, been used against an IIC of Police for dereliction in duty. A pro-Naveen TV channel was used last evening for this purpose where majority of time was devoted to bit the BJD drums that by dismissing Champatiray the message has been given to salaried employees that whosoever of them neglects implementation of laws would not be spared in the government that Naveen runs.

But the Government knows, so also Champatiray, that the dismissal order is too week an order to survive a legal challenge and by challenging it in an appropriate Court, without prejudice to any other action that future may think prudent, Champatiray will certainly be reinstated in service, as the said article used in his dismissal is misused.

Let us see what is provided for under this Article.

Article 311

(1) No person who is a member of a civil service of the Union or an all-India service or a civil service of a State or holds a civil post under the Union or a State shall be dismissed or removed by an authority subordinate to that by which he was appointed.

(2) No such person as aforesaid shall be dismissed or removed or reduced in rank except after an inquiry in which he has been informed of the charges against him
and given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of those charges.

Provided that where it is proposed after such inquiry, to impose upon him any such penalty, such penalty may be imposed on the basis of the evidence adduced during such inquiry and it shall not be necessary to give such person any opportunity of making representation on the penalty proposed:

Provided further that this clause shall not apply—

(b) where the authority empowered to dismiss or remove a person or to reduce him in rank is satisfied that for some reason, to be recorded by that authority in writing, it is not reasonably practicable to hold such inquiry.

So, the stress of this provision is irrevocably concentrated on the opportunity of self-defense to be given to the officer in course of inquiry on the anvil of dismissal.

Avoidance of inquiry is not permissible except where “it is not reasonably practicable to hold such inquiry”.

Champatiray has not absconded and was never beyond the reach of the police for inquiry. It was never therefore “not reasonably practicable to hold the inquiry” against him. The DGP has not recorded in writing the reason of why it was “not reasonable practicable” to hold the inquiry.

It is noteworthy that simultaneously with dismissal of Champatiray, the Puri SP has been transferred on the same ground of dereliction of duty in Piplili gang rape context. So it is confirmed by the Government that Champatiray was not alone in protecting the criminals. Had there been the inquiry as contemplated in the Constitutional provision cited supra, the SP’s role in keeping the culprits out of police reach could have come to light. Then the IPS officer must have been forced to face the charges of protecting the criminals and for whatever damage has been done to the gang rape victim. And, it would have embarrassed the IPS circle. Probably this is why the inquiry needed under Article 311 (2) (b) of the constitution has been ignored.

This willful conduct of the DGP of Orissa in keeping an IPS officer of national cadre safe from prosecution while dismissing a lower officer of State cadre is a game that the government should have foiled. But,no such step is taken.

It is clear, therefore, that the constitution is raped in dismissing Champatiray and knowingly so.

No court shall approve this rape of Indian Constitution by the DGP of Orissa.

And, by publicly endorsing the action of the DGP in this matter, the executive government including the Home Secretary and the Chief Secretary as well as the political government headed by Naveen Patnaik, and Naveen Patnaik himself, have individually and collectively committed the rape on the Constitution of India having full knowledge of the mischief they have resorted to.

In doing this, they have ensured that Champatiray’s stage-managed dismissal would be nullified by the appropriate court in course of time; and therefore, it is not out of context to suspect that the oder of this illegal dismissal might have been passed in connivance with Champatiray himself.

It certainly is a well planned order – because it certainly is not believable that the DGP as well as the functionaries named above have not understood the language of Article 311 (2) (b) of the Constitution – to provide Champatiray with the environment of service-safety that certainly would come to him as and when he challenges the order and therefore, is not meant for punishing the offender; but is contrived to hoodwink the people at the moment when Panchayat elections are a challenge to the Chief Minister.

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Hindol Tangle: Will the Truth Really Prevail?

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Nabaghan’s alleged letter to Police Superintendent (SP) of Dhenkanal district, according to news, is carrying his signature as evaluated by the State Forensic Laboratory. In this letter, he is alleged to have alleged that there was threat to his life from his area MLA Ms. Anjali Behera, rewarded by Chief Minister with elevation to the cabinet rank from Minister of State.

This evaluation of the Forensic Lab has ignited a new demand for immediate dismissal of Ms. Behera from the Council of Ministers and her arrest and prosecution for extermination of Nabaghan, her alleged political rival and detractor in the constituency.

Even, in a panel discussion in Kamyab TV last evening, Sri Narendra Swain, a Secretary of BJD, the party of Anjali to which Nabaghan also belonged, has asserted that action would certainly be taken against the district SP as his inaction on Nabaghan’s letter culminated in his killing. Had the SP diligently acted, Nabaghan might have been saved, he has said. There is no dearth of political sophomores in BJD to vomit nonsense in public forums and therefore I am not inclined to put any premium on what the BJD secretary has unauthorizedly said in the Kamyab TV panel.

When the matter is sub judice, the BJD secretary’s assertion is absolutely irresponsible; because, it is to be determined whether or not the letter in question has any real relevance to Nabaghan’s death.

But commonsense suggests, if the rivalry between the two top BJD leaders of Hindol – Nabaghan in the chair of the Chairman of the Panchayat Samiti as against Anjali’s position as MLA – had gone into the extent of threat to life, the ruling party must have noticed the acrimony.

If Nabaghan could write this alleged letter to the SP, he must have written to his party and the party supremo several times before writing this alleged letter about the threat to his life from the party MLA-cum-Minister.

Why BJD and its supremo-cum-Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik did not take any step to solve the tangle?

Why Narendra did not utter a single word about it if such a life threatening tangle was really there?

Why the police is not exploring this angle?

Whether or not Nabaghan was murdered, as is being alleged, is a matter to be determined by the Court.

But what about talks in the grapevine that Nabaghan’s loss of life was not caused by Anjali but by an accidental hit on the zigzag hilly village road against a vehicle?

In Nabaghan’s case, if his letter to the SP seeking protection from Anjali is genuine, the BJD and its supremo Naveen Patnaik must first be held responsible for the loss of life, for having failed to solve the tangle in their own organizational platform. On the other hand, one would read from the letter that there was acute acrimony between Nabaghan and Anjali, which the local BJD workers deny.

The so-called letter of Nabaghan to the SP carries his alleged signature only, not his handwriting.

If he would sure have written this letter, it could entirely have been written by Nabaghan in his own hand.

He had neither any computer to type the alleged letter in his residence nor had he known typing in a computer.

He had not gone out of his village to type it elsewhere during the relevant time. No evidence to that effect is available.

Besides, Nabaghan had not gone to Dhenkanal to meet the SP on the alleged date.

Had he really prepared the letter elsewhere and signed the alleged letter and delivered the same to the SP, it could certainly have been in the records of the SP office. It is not on records there.

No figment of imagination can even accept that a SP refuses to receive such a letter from a Panchayat Samiti Chairman. It simply is not possible.

Everybody who knows how administration runs, knows it.

There may not be any action on any letter from a people’s representative, but a SP refusing to receive a letter from a Panchayat Samiti Chairman in person, when the same was to indicate a threat to his life, is impossible.

It is being touted that the SP was influenced by Anjali, the Minister, as a result of which he did not accept Nabaghan’s letter. If the SP had good relationship with Anjali, he had no bad relationship with Nabaghan.

On the other hand, if instead of relying on his party supremo – the Chief Minister – Nabaghan had preferred to rely upon the SP, then it is indicative of the reality that Nabaghan had reliable relationship and rapport with the SP and hence, it cannot be accepted that the SP had refused to receive the letter he had written him.

Had the SP, despite good relationship with Nabaghan, refused to accept the letter, he being a political bigwig of Hindol – holding the highest post in the Panchayat Samiti as its Chairman – was certainly equipped with the acumen to send the same to the SP by registered post with copies thereof communicated to the Director General of Police and the Home Secretary as well as the Chief Minister mentioning therein that he had to prefer the registered post as the SP refused to accept it.

Nabaghan had never done this.

So, it is clear that he had never written this letter to the SP of Dhenkanal.

On the other hand, it seems, the so-called letter to the SP has been typed on a sheet of paper where Nabaghan had put his signature earlier. This is certain, because the typing has been made to accommodate the signature.

Hence, despite Nabaghan’s signature, the alleged letter to the SP is a forged letter, no doubt.

If the SP had not received the alleged letter and the DGP or the Home Secretary or the Chief Minister was not served with a copy thereof, where from it emerged?

As it transpires, one Nabakishore Sahu – a Dhenkanal based lawyer – has supplied the alleged letter to Crime Branch after more than a week of Nabaghan’s death. Why he did it and how?

Let the CB investigate and find out the answers to these questions and let the Court do justice by searching for the answers.

Role of Nabakishore Sahu, lawyer needs be probed into

This much is relevant to recall at this stage, that, for more than a year before his death, Nabaghan was not holding any meeting of the Panchayat Samiti for which there was stalemate in implementation of various development programs. It had led the District Collector to convey a meeting of the Panchayat Samiti in his chamber at Dhenkanal. There was apprehensions that the Samiti may be superseded and therefore, Nabaghan was to seek judicial protection against possible supersession by invoking writ jurisdiction of the High Court. Nabakishore Sahu, the Dhenkanal based lawyer, who has given the alleged letter to CB, was his counsel. Therefore, it may be suspected that Nabaghan’s signature in plain paper was collected for judicial use by this lawyer, who has given the signed-on-typed-sheet alleged letter purported to be of Nabaghan to the CB, wherein the alleged threat to his life from Anjali forms the crux.

Was this lawyer having any grudge against Anjali? Perhaps yes. A close confident of Anjali for around a decade, he was eager to be reappointed as a Public Prosecutor and had pinned his hope on her. But he did not get the reappointment. He had reason to suspect that Anjali was responsible for denial of the APP post to him. It may be, he was determined to settle the score. And, perhaps, therefore, he used the signed plain paper to drag in Anjali to the murder angle by typing the so-called letter on it.

If CB investigation does not unsettle this suspicion, it would not be improper to assume that after transforming the accidental death of Nabaghan into an alleged murder, the son of Bijay Raut has been wrongfully arrested by shrewd exploitation of circumstances and confusion in the police to generate credibility for the cooked up allegation on the premises of Bijay’s good relationship with Anjali.

In this nasty game that the vested interest fellows play, if an innocent young man gets punished, it would be a sad blot on society.

Hence, these angles need urgent cogitation and exhaustive investigation and the media need be self-disciplined and far from being rash. Otherwise, the truth may not really prevail.

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AMA ODISHA Makes a New Milestone: Commences Cast-Your-Vote Campaign

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

AMA ODISHA, Orissa’s frontline civil organization, founded by Sambad editor Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, had made the first milestone in social service sector by starting up, sticking to and constantly enhancing blood donation campaign, so essential for saving life in this State that the politico-executive government has reduced to a land of malnutrition. Its story is a success story of humanitarian activities with, I may say, no comparison. Another milestone it has established in matter of the mother-tongue by enkindling unprecedented zeal amongst students and general public for writing fault free Oriya with meticulous care. Remarkable is its consistency in steering these campaigns ahead with devotion.

The new milestone it has now founded is its campaign for conscious casting of votes by all of the voters.


In a unique congregation convened at Sahid Bhawan, Cuttack, on 23 January, the birthday of two most revered icons of patriotism, Veer Surendra Sai and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, whom the soil of this magnificent State had given birth to, founder President of Ama Odisha – Editor of Sambad – Soumya Ranjan Patnaik urged upon all of the voters to cast their votes certainly in every election to the body of representatives, as thereby only, Indian democracy can be saved from derailment. About 35 % of the voters are abstaining from casting their votes and these 35 % are those that are educated and informed. As inflow of fresh water into ponds is essential to cleanse out the putrified stock of stagnet water, so also active participation of educated and informed citizens in enfranchisement is essential for cleansing the filth from politics, he argued. He stressed on cent per cent voting in elections and declared that Ama Odisha will untiringly conduct the campaign with utmost commitment. An oath to this effect was administered on all who participated.

We entirely endorse this campaign, though to us, conscious casting of votes without distinctly defined determination to oust the saboteurs of the Preamble of Indian Constitution where was laid down the National Resolve for building the country up on the basis of socialism, from office and to bring in such a government that would transport the country from the present pernicious prison of inequality to the real sovereign reign of political economy of equality, the exercise will be futile.

To us, Indian democracy has been transformed into a plutocracy by its political rulers simply because the most conscious segment of voters are abstaining from voting. Only the conscious citizens know that unless the country is put on the track of economy of equality, it can never be saved from vested interest mafia and whatever little semblance of democracy is still in existence will eventually give way to the nastiest of plutocracies. We are sure, if the abstaining-from-vote citizens, basically belong as they to the educated and informed segment of society, decide to actively participate in vote casting, the traitors, that, despite small numbers of vote casted in their favor, have been running the political governments, will be thrown into the trash of time and a new epoch of equality and patriotism that equality alone generates, will emerge.

Therefore, to us, Ama Odisha’s cast-your-vote campaign is the last hope for revival of democracy and survival of India.

We, with this hope, wish all success to the campaign.

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Justice P.K. Mohanty Requested to Reject Govt. Offer of Judicial Commission and Bar Associations Requested to Strengthen the Protest in the Matter of Pipili Gang Rape

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Request to Justice P.K.Mohanty

The Orissa Gana Samaj comprising the united platform of media persons in Orissa – the Media Unity for Freedom of Press – and all Opposition parties and frontline civil society organizations of the State has requested Justice P. K. Mohanty not to accept the offer of the  State Government to act as the Inquiry Commission of Arjungoda (Pipili) gang rape case, which is one of the most heinous crimes against a dalit girl ever perpetrated under supportive canopy of the Government. Making it clear that the Commission is appointed “only to divert growing public anger and increasing demand for a CBI investigation into the case”, the OGS has urged upon Justice Mohanty to “decline offer of the Government in the interest of justice”.

Request to the Bar Associations

The OGS has also requested the members of all Bar Associations including the High Court Bar Association to join the mass protest rally to demonstrate today the wrath of public against official protection given to the rapists of Pipili in particular so far and the tactics contrived in shape of judicial inquiry to give the rapists indirect protection hereafter by delaying the possible actions under criminal laws, as the prosecution shall have to wait till the judicial investigations are over.

In an appeal, joint conveners of the OGS , Prasanta Patnaik and Rabi Das of MUFP have mentioned , ” it is a matter of great concern that the sexual harassment to women is rising in the State of Odisha every day. The increasing henious crime, needless to say, is due to inefficiency, acllousness and political intervension in the State police force. The occurrence in village Arjungoda under Pipili police station is one of the glaring example of such inaction of the Government. Every conseious citizen shall have to react and register their protest”.

As per the program, the protest would be offered in the form of procession start from Gopabandhu Bag, Cuttack on 24th January, 2012 in the morning at 10.30 a.m. and meeting at the end of it while handing over a memorandum to R.D.C. ( Central ) for the Government.

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Give up Hypocrisy With Respect To Surendra Sai, Give Sambalpur Its Due Importance

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Orissa Government behaves hypocritically in many respects. But it should give up hypocrisy with respect to Veer Surendra Sai.

Our discussion on Surendra Sai being well read in these pages, we do not now prefer a new discussion on his life and sacrifice. But, we can certainly say that he had made the greatest and the most inspiring sacrifice for restoration of the distinct dignity of Sambalpur, the place that has the most monumental contribution to culture of Orissa.

Orissa owes its name to Uddiyan Tantra founded by the founder of Vajrayana of Buddhism, Indrabhuti, the light of Udradesh, Sambalpur.

Indrabhuti was the man who coined the name Jagannatha for Gurudev Buddha and established him as such amalgamating the tribal matriarchy with Buddhist tenets that are yet in vogue in the Jagannatha temple system.

So, it is Indrabhuti of Uddiyan Sambalpur who gave birth to Jagannath culture on which Orissa’s unique world outlook is based.

When this Jagannatha has been converted from Buddha to Vishnu and thereby into a deity controlled by the caste supremacists, it may depend on argument and counter argument to arrive at this truth that Jagannath of Puri owes his origin to Indrabhuti of present day Sambalpur. But, no argument is needed to show that Surendra Sai had made supreme sacrifice for restoration of the distinct position of Sambalpur.

I have in these pages as well as in my columns in Oriya language harped several times on transfer of a portion of the State Secretariat comprising departments having more relevance to western Orissa and high lands to Sambalpur as well as for establishment of a bench of the Orissa High Court in this place without wastage of time. The people of the western region are also agitating for availability of executive and judicial government at their door step.

These essential facilities are not being available to people of Western Orissa simply because the State Government is not rising above timidness and hypocrisy.

If Surendra Sai is really to be honored, the unique contribution of Sambalpur region to Orissa should be unreservedly recognized and the offices of executive and judicial government must be established in Sambalpur.

So, politico-administrative hypocrisy should be given up with respect to Surendra Sai and he should be given due respect by establishment of a bench of the Orissa High Court at and by transfer of a part of the State Secretariat comprising departments more relevant to Western Orissa to Sambalpur without wastage of time.

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May We Celebrate Many Happy Returns of the Day

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

AFFECTION

Written in Oriya by Smt. Chandraprava Pattanayak
Translated into English by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

I am not the young age that goes away not to return,
No Shephali flower am I to fall down when rises the Sun.

Not am I the gloom of the new-moon day
Storms come and storms go, love’s white bloom I stay.

In the realm of my mind along ecstasy of creation
I am the rhythm of creativity, the paradise of affection.

By setting new tunes to the flute of life,
By infusing abundance thereinto,
I will refurbish and keep alive
My world for all times to come in situ.

This is my rendition of Chandraprava’s MAMATA that I present as a token of my best wishes to her on the 45th anniversary of her happy marriage with my dearest friend Prasanta Patnaik. I have picked up this poem from SWARAMAYA, the compilation of her Oriya poems, brought out by Associated Media Foundation, Bhubaneswar, on 23 January 2010.

As I share this pleasure with you all, I would like to thank Chandraprava and Prasanta for the very fact that they have made their togetherness exemplary for our society. Both of them constitute a remarkable couple that devotes its might to the common cause of Orissa.

May we celebrate many happy returns of the day.

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Shame! Book of Nastiest Caste Hatred Bags the Best Book Award from India’s National Academy of Letters!

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

It is a shame that a book of nastiest caste hatred has obtained the best book in Oriya language award from India’s National Academy of Letters for 2011.

Before proceeding further, we will look at certain words proudly used in the book that has been awarded with the coveted prize.

There are certain words in Oriya language which cannot be expressed in any single word in English. One of such words is SHALA. Generally it means “wife’s brother”. But it has slang use. And, mostly it is used in slang. When in anger one calls another as SHALA, the word becomes abusive and obnoxious. It means, “ one whose sister is fucked”. Use of this word is profuse in this sense only.

HADI is another word that indicates the lowest of the low caste people whom the caste-supremacists have equated with scavengers by forcing them to clean their ordure, carry their family filths away, remove carcasses from their yards or neighborhood. Members of this HADI caste are also called HEDAKHIA, because, forced into the lowest class, debarred by the caste-supremacists from acquiring any property, they use to thrive on carcasses of dead cattle. Hence, HEDAKHIA means carcass-eater.

KANDARA is another untouchable caste used by upper-caste Hindus for catching fish for them from ponds and rivers and guarding their properties from thieves and trespassers as a compulsory duty ensuring thereby absence of the males of this caste from their homes which helps upper-caste masters have pastime. Their wives are known as KANDURUNI.

For keeping these people subdued and submissive for ever, they are branded as “untouchable” publicly.

Time has changed and the practice is no more in vogue. But the words have not lost their meaning.

Shockingly, the Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Akademi of Letters, has given legitimacy to use of these obnoxious words against caste disadvantaged communities by giving its 2011 award for the best literary work in Oriya to a book – unknown to people of Orissa so far – captioned ‘Achihna Basabhumi’ where the above mentioned derogatory words are used sans qualm to abuse the socially exploited untouchable people.

Look at a few instances.


At page 232, there is an expression: “TU BRAHMANA NAA HADI RE SHALA?” (Fucked your sister. What are you – Brahman or Hadi? You, whose sister I fuck?).


In the preceding page i.e. page 231, it is written, “CHUP SHALA. MUN TO SATA JANMARA NANA NUHAN RE SHALARA SHALA. MO BAPA KEBE MANA KARI NATHIBA TO MA KANDURUNI GHARARA KABATA KILIBAKU. SHALA HEDAKHIA”. (Shut up you, whose sister I fuck. Your sister is fucked by one whose sister I fuck, I am never your brother in even seven births. My father would never have wanted to fuck your mother KANDURUNI by bolting her door from within. Fucked-sister scavenger, carcass-eater.)

Such objectionable words and slangs like “Randi, Alakshani” (page 277) are used in this book. Caste hatred sic passim in expressions like “Tu kana Gokhani (woman belonging to untouchable Gokha caste) pari nakare guna lagaibaku janma hoichhu?(page 271)” or “Yogya boil ajati, kujatire jhiaku daba?”(page 532) are distinct features of this book.

I do not say that the book is a completely bad book. But the book is infested with nasty expressions.

It is a shame that this book with nasty expressions has bagged the annual award of India’s National Academy of Letters for 2011 as the best amongst the books in Oriya language.

The award has generated hot controversy in Orissa.

We will discuss how illegally the selection of this book has been carried out. But for now, on the ground of this caste abuse alone, the book needs be banned and Orissa Government – constitutional protector of Oriya language and its magnificence – be asked to proceed to force the Central Sahitya Akademi to cancel its award.

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Will Tripathy Act As SEC or Continue Ignoring Contravention of Election Laws by the Ruling Party as an Obliged Person?

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Had the State Election Commissioner Mr. Ajit Kumar Tripathy acted as a responsible SEC, the ruling party, specifically the Chief Minister could have been taken to task for contravention of the election code in the context of political use of the official platform of the 99th Indian Science Congress.

Had he acted to faithfully discharge his duties as SEC, all the Biju statues erected arbitrarily in public places and all official signboards carrying Biju’s name, like in Uttar Pradesh, should have been put under cover and all official projects named after him should have been kept behind curtains till Panchayat elections were over.

He has not acted against these instances having dazzling effect on voters’ free thinking, which, unless remedied immediately by taking the Chief Minister to task for such shrewd use of public places and official emblems for political mileage after the Panchayat election process started, may put the BJD in advantage.

After we focused on the urgent necessity of putting Biju statues erected in public places as well as office boards and official projects named after Biju away from voters’ view, the SEC has, of course, restrained candidates from using party names and party flags and simultaneously, political parties from electioneering in support of any candidate or candidates.

Now, therefore, the SEC has reason to act against BJD, and its Pipili MLA Pradip Maharathi in particular, as this restriction has been blatantly violated in a procession under the ruling party banner that spread from Bhubaneswar into various Panchayats of Pipili Constituency.

The BJD MLA, tainted with the appalling Pipili obnoxiousness that has left the gang-raped victim in coma, after resigning from ministership under pressure, had to declare that his resignation was propelled by his desire to save his party from embarrassment in the Panchayat polls and to campaign freely full time for the party candidates in the hustings. He even described the candidates contesting for posts from ward members to Sarpanches to members of Panchayat Samitis as BJD soldiers and himself as their commander, before commencement of the procession on 20 January, while blowing in his own mouth a conch that the BJD has adopted as its election symbol. The procession, with horrific roaring of 1500 motorcycles escorting Maharathi, heavily studded with party flags and party slogans covered almost all panchayat nerve centers with official personnels, in attendance, witnessing the aggressive barnstorming without any objection.

If this is not contravention of the election codes, what else could be?

The SEC should come out with an answer.

And, instead of acting as an obliged person rehabilitated after retirement, Mr. Tripathy should act as the SEC and save the Panchayats from being hijacked by the ruling party through blatant contravention of election codes.

In fact, the most clamant question at the moment is: will Tripathy act as SEC or continue ignoring contravention of election laws by the ruling party as an obliged person?

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CBI PROBE INTO PIPILI GANG RAPE A MUST NECESSITY: UTKAL MAHILA SAMITY

Posted on January 21, 2012 by orissamattersbbsr

A delegation from Utkal Mahila Samiti, the premier women organization of the State affiliated to National Federation of Indian Women, has submitted a five-point memorandum to the Chief Minister emphasizing that CBI probe into the Pipili gang rape as well as other incidents of rape is a must necessity, which his government should not shy at.

The demands included C.B.I. probe into the Pipili gang rape incident
to punish all the connected criminals and officials that tried to hush up the case.

The delegate has stressed on saving the life of the victim and giving her justice by taking exemplary action against the police officers who have neglected their duties in her respect and rehabilitation of all the rape victims coming to light in Orissa.

The delegation  included President of the Samity Basanti Sahu, Secretary Sandhya Mohapatra, Chandra Prava Patnaik, Prava Rani Acharya, Puspakanti Mohanty, Pratima Mohapatra, Basanti Mishra, Kabita Manjari Puhan, Rashmi Rekha Patnaik, Bishnu Priya Acharya, Saubhagini Nayak, Krushnapriya Mishra, Kabita Dash, Karisma Swain, Subhasmita Jena and Subhashree Swain.

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If Maharathi Resigns on Moral Ground, Where has Gone the Morality of the Chief Minister?

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

In reacting to resignation of Pradip Maharathi from the Council of Ministers in the context of Pipili gang rape case, Opposition stalwart Bijay Mohapatra has asked: if Maharathi has resigned on moral ground, where has gone the morality of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who despite being the Home Minister has not acted against the crime since 2008?

PCC President Niranjan Patnaik has termed Maharathi’s resignation as a drama enacted to save the CM’s skin.

The crime was committed in 2008 and since then the criminals are not punished. Even though the criminals are alleged to have gang raped the Pipili girl to the extent of suffocating her into coma under violent brutality in their nefarious design to eliminate every possibility of her deposition in the court, the police refused to act and the Home department controlled by the CM continued to ignore its responsibility in the matter. Therefore, if any body should quit on moral ground, more than Maharathi, it is the Chief-cum-Home Minister Naveen Patnaik, points out the PCC chief.

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