Orissa CinemaSubhas Chandra Pattanayak
Orissa Chief Minister Navein Patnaik has survived the no-confidence motion moved against him by the Opposition Congress on August 29. But it doesn’t mean that he enjoys confidence.
He is heading a coalition ministry in partnership with BJP.
As many as 20 members of its legislative wing, meaning majority of its MLAs including [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Opposition decided to remain silent. But their silence stonewalled the House like never before. The ministry of Navin Patnaik was too demoralized to run the business of the House for more than a hundred minutes on August 28.
The catastrophic collapse of law and order implementation in the State that has [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Legislative Assembly is meant to discharge two duties: Monitoring administration and Adopting Legislations.
Monitoring administration is meant to save the State from ruins and to ensure that the Ministry makes the executive perform properly; but my memory doesn’t help me finding if it has ever happened specifically since the present Chief Minister has taken [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
BJP leader L.K.Advani and media organization CNN-IBN have preferred Hindu sectarian leader Laxmanananda’s posthumous misuse against Leftist ultras through premature assertions that Naxals have killed him, when, his own organization Viswa Hindu Parisad that is supposed to know where the shoe really pinched has declared that it is the Christian fanatics who are [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
A stalwart of Hindu religious revivalism Laxmanananda Saraswati has been shot dead while resting in a female child asylum at Tumudibandha of Kandhamal district along with five others at about 8.30 in the evening of August 23.
RSS alleges that Christian religious fanatics have killed Laxmananand who was very active in foiling their attempts [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Orissa Assembly failed to proceed beyond fourteen minutes on 22nd August. Despite stout denial of the charges by the Deputy Speaker Mr. Prahllad Dora in the Press, his daughter-in-law Smita’s allegations were too serious to be ignored by the Opposition in the floor of the House.
Smita has lodged a complaint with the Police [...]
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Ruling BJD has on August 19 finally replaced its man in the Speaker’s chair at the eve of Orissa Assembly’s monsoon session to commence from August 20.
The new man is Sri Kishore Mohanty, representing Jharsuguda.
Sri Maheswar Mohanty whom Kishore replaces was to relinquish his post as a lady marshal of the Assembly raised [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s tenure has become a period of embarrassment for India. He is a PM on technical ground, not on moral ground.
Moral ground requires that a member of the Lok Sabha should be the PM. He is not a member of the Lok Sabha.
Moral ground requires that the PM [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Not all that glitters is gold. So, not all the Non-Resident Oriyas (NRO) are what they look like. There are a few amongst them who emit aura of advancement in education and professions and specifically bask under the color of American link; but sometimes they give vent to such orientation that makes one [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Intellectuals of Orissa are divided over official supply of rice at the rate of Rs.2 per kg to 59 lakhs of families that are in our opinion families under slow starvation categorized as people below the poverty line (BPL).
The impartial intellectuals view it as Navin Patnaik’s chief ministerial acrobatics aimed at evading wrath [...]
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