Orissa Assembly:Session Starts In The Same Old Style

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The seventh session of Orissa Legislative Assembly commenced on the day preceding the last month of the current fiscal year with the Governor Sri M.M.Rajendran telling the House that the “State is passing through a severe fiscal crisis of unprecedented nature.”
The Eleventh Finance Commission had calculated Orissa’s debt GDP ratio to [...]

Communalists Fail To Conquer Puri

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Puri, the citadel of secular culture, has rejected communal elements in the Panchayat elections. Not a single candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won a seat within the jurisdiction of Puri Panchayat Samiti.
Eager to assess its own strength, the BJP had decided to fight the Panchayat polls in Orissa [...]

Naveen In Confusion

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
He took a helicopter to attend the marriage ceremony of the daughter of central minister Arjun Charan Sethy at later’s Balasore village but did not attend it. He came back to his residence and ordered the aids not to allow anybody- whatever be his position-to disturb him.
A few days later, the BJP high [...]