Posted on September 28, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Orissa’s senior most active politician and Leader of Opposition Sri Janaki Ballav Pattanaik has asked Chief Minister Navin Patnaik not to continue misrule but to quit office, as it is clear that lack of sense of responsibility on his part has pushed the peoples of Orissa into the labyrinth of current catastrophic calamity [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Secretary G.V.V.Sharma of the revenue department that handles the relief operations confessed on September 25 that at least 8 lakh persons in 825 villages are marooned as yet with no road connectivity to reach them. He admitted that boats are the only means to send them the badly needed food and drinking water; [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) that has direct and heavy commercial interest in Orissa has ignored the State in contribution to relief funds whereas its Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) Sri R.S.Sharma being a Behari, the Central Public Sector Company has given Rs. 10 crores to provide relief to the Bihar flood victims. [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Held ‘unprecedented’ by all watchers, the flood that submerged roughly 5,500 villages in 18 out of 30 districts of the State, damaged / destroyed paddy crops in around 4.35 lakh hectares of land, overwhelmed more than 45 lakhs of inhabitants, afflicted at least 10 lakhs of domestic animals, devastated around 1.6 lakh residential [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The brave peoples of Orissa have defeated the pernicious flood.
In my personal album, I have always kept this picture. It shows how a mother was carrying her son to safety braving the devastative flood in Balasore district in 2006. UNICEF had circulated this picture and as a reminder of how daring could [...]
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Posted on September 20, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The result of municipality elections in Orissa has gone clearly against the Congress.
It does not necessarily suggest that the urban peoples have expressed their faith in Chief Minister Navin Patnaik by electing BJD-BJP candidates in majority of urban wards.
There was no coalition between the BJD and the BJP in the urban [...]
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Posted on September 16, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The term ‘Bonded Labor’ has been defined under section 2 (g) of the Bonded Labor system Abolition Act (hereinafter called the Act) according to which, a bonded labor is one who, by reason of his/her birth in any particular caste or community renders by him/herself or through any member of his/her family or [...]
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Posted on September 13, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
But for conceitedness Navin should be able to read the writings on the wall.
He is no more enjoying the confidence of the people. Any delay in dissolving the Assembly will only help the BJP to grab Orissa, because spangled with American agents, Congress will not be able to gather support in Orissa [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
If Chief Minister Navin Patnaik could be distinguished for any specific behavior that is his shying at the peoples of Orissa.
As is evidenced in his visit to Kandhamal on August 30, he could not dare to visit any village that perished under communal fire. To please his communal allies he visited the Hindutwa [...]
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