IN GOVERNMENT; BUT IN CRIME AGAINST THE STATE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
If you do not pay the State its dues, without any valid reason, how can one term it?
It is a crime against the State. Can one say, no?
No.
Then a crime has hit our State. The perpetrators are Ministers and Leaders of Orissa. The crime is willful.
Let us rely upon Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s [...]

WOMEN OF KORAPUT IN ORISSA BRING BACK LIFE TO DEAD SPRING

Roving Reporter
No more leaving the village in search of livelihood elsewhere. No more living under threat of death due to dehydration. Shuddering under the shadow of impending desert is no more.
Three women, only three, have made the magic.
Water, vanished since long, has come back to the dried up spring in the village of Bhimdol under [...]

KALINGA NAGAR MASSACRE: QUESTIONS THE CHIEF MINISTER SHIED AT

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
It was not easy for the Opposition to make the Government understand that it was answerable to Orissa Legislative Assembly on the massacre perpetrated by the State on tribal population at Kalinga Nagar on 2nd January 2006. After almost a total collapse of scheduled businesses of the House for three consecutive days [...]

TRAIN YOUR MIND TO THE DEBATES; NOT TO TRAINING IN JUDO, MR.SPEAKER!

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Every session of a Legislative Assembly is important; but the Budget session is importantly important. Orissa Assembly commenced this session on the 3rd Feb. 2006. People of Orissa are eager to see that the budget be discussed and we know, discussion on a budget proceeds on the premise of accountability of the Government.
In [...]

DEMOCRACY IN DILEMMA: AN IAS OFFICER CAN HARM PEOPLE EVEN AFTER RETIREMENT

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
In deep agony over unilateral delimitation of constituencies that is clearly anti-people and anti-democracy, Ms. Sugyan Kumari Deo, held in high esteem by everybody irrespective of party affiliations, condemned the draft notification published by the Delimitation Commission (DC) during the debates in Orissa Legislative Assembly on 20.Feb.06 and said, even though she cannot [...]

ERA OF POLITICAL KILLING COMMENCES IN ORISSA: OPPOSITION

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
An era of political killing has commenced in Orissa under the BJD-BJP coalition government, alleged independent member Shambunath Nayak in the Orissa Legislative Assembly on 17 Feb.2006 criticizing Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for his refusal to arrest Rajat Kumar Rai, Officer-In-Charge of Charmal Police Station even though he is the kingpin behind the [...]

KALINGA NAGAR MASSACRE: CM FIDGETS IN THE HOUSE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik took so many days. But he could not convince the Opposition that he is not guilty.
Trying to defend his Government in the Kalinga Nagar massacre matter, Patnaik told the House on 17 Feb.2006 in the evening that he has more than compensated the victims through posthumous financial aid at [...]

SPEAKER APOLOGIZED, MEMBERS TOO: ASSEMBLY RESUMES

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
After the entire day passed away in protracted labor to deliver a solution to the stalemate whipped up by harsh rulings and rash reaction of the Speaker, Orissa Assembly resumed its business at 5 P.M., at the summit of continuous adjournments promulgated by the Deputy Speaker from time to time, six times, on [...]

ORISSA ASSEMBLY ABORTS BUSINESS: SPEAKER BLAMED FOR INTIMIDATION

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Speaker Maheswar Mohanty clarifies that he has not told to beat up any member of the Opposition. He has only said that the people will beat them up. He admitted that he used the word “Pitibe” meaning the people will beat them up. Tara Pr. Bahinipati, Congress MLA declares that the Speaker told [...]

OPPOSITION WALKS OUT AS RESOURCE-LEASHED BUDGET SEEKS ASSEMBLY SUPPORT

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The Opposition in Orissa Assembly walked out on 14 February 2006 as Finance Minister Prafulla Ghadei started highlighting his budget for the Financial Year 2006-07, which, even though styled as a balanced budget, is leashed to resources.
“The thrust of our budget is on growth, development, efficiency, social equity”, Ghadei declared.
It is stale, insipid [...]