C.E.O. IN THE SOUP

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Orissa’s Chief Election Officer is in the soup as the parallel supremo of ruling BJD, Pyari Mohan Mohaparta has alleged that she is anti-BJD and she has interfered with posting of officials in order to implement her anti-BJD motive. The BJD has moved the Election Commission to enquire into her activities, he [...]

VOTE FOR ANY CANDIDATE, EVM TAKES IT FOR BJD! ADVANTAGE OF STAYING IN POWER?

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The shock was unfathomable not only for the Congress and the BJP but also to the peoples of Cuttack’s Nimasahi when this forenoon, it was chance discovered that marking for any party in the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at Booth No.160, was being recorded as vote for the BJD! The Polling officials [...]

ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES TAMPERED WITH?

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Second and final phase of voting in Orissa is witnessing voters’ wrath against polling officers in most of the booths as till now, i.e.noon, the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) are not working. In the first phase of election on April 16, EVM problems had affected voting in many booths. Voters had taken [...]

TATHAGAT AND SOUMYA ARE MY PERSONAL PREFERENCES

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Electioneering is over. Voters will now vote in the 2nd phase of general elections in Orissa. In my considered views, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is the worst enemy of Orissa like the Congress Party is the worst enemy of India. Both these parties are anti-democracy inasmuch as they are structured on factotumism [...]

INADEQUATE CAMPAIGN FUNDS DISADVANTAGES CONGRESS CANDIDATES

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Congress candidates in Orissa have failed to show how morally they are better equipped than their rivals in the fray. The way Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh denigrated the Parliament in the matter of the nuke deal with USA and stage-managed survival through horse-trading, has remained too fresh in peoples’ mind to [...]

ORIYA NEWSPAPERS BEHAVE LIKE CLASSIC PROSTITUTES

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Prostitutes don’t mind manners or language, caste or creed, color or culture, age or health and region or religion of the customer. But they have their own religion. That is, total devotion to desire of customers. Ramayan gives us a sample in the Ravan –Rambha episode. Rambha was the most provocative beauty [...]

ELECTION IN ORISSA: NOTEWORTHY IS REFUSAL TO VOTE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Attempts were rampant to hijack election in Orissa by two sets of political activists: one known as BJD and the other, alleged as left ultras. Money was recovered from a vehicle pressed on election duty of BJD’s Loksabha candidate from Berhampur, Siddhant Mohapatra, with which is dovetailed Chief Minister Navin Patnaik’s Assembly [...]

DEFEAT POLITICAL HYPOCRISY

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Political hypocrisy is the worst enemy of democracy. Plutocracy has engulfed our democracy only because of political hypocrisy. The rich and the agents of the rich are contesting elections and on occupying Parliamentary floors, are framing rules and running administration for benefit of the rich. More numbers of multi-millionaires and dreaded criminals [...]

ELECTION COMMISSION STRANGULATED DEMOCRACY AT ATHGARH: WHITHER HAS GONE JUDICIAL ACTIVISM?

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Against any instance of misrule or illegality in any public office, every citizen is entitled to move the judiciary. But it is not possible for every citizen of India, because everybody is not equipped with the money to proceed and the time to pay that litigation needs. This inadequacy drastically damages democracy. [...]

RAVENSHAW UNIVERSITY UNDER PRESSURE TO AWARD HONORARY DOCTORATE TO TWO NON-ORIYAS

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Orissa’s famous seat of higher education, Ravenshaw College, after metamorphosing into an University, Ravenshaw Uinversity (RU), is under pressure to award honorary doctorate degrees to two non-Oriyas;one, a lawyer from Delhi and the other, a singer from Mumbai. It is learned that Sri Rameswar Thakur, who being the Governor of Orissa is [...]

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