Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The Occupy BJD Campaign led by dissident leader Pyari Mohan Mohapatra had a tremendous display of support as an estimated 20,000 campaigners, in their “revolutionary congregation” (Kranti Samaroh) at Bhubaneswar today, vowed to retrieve their party from the autocratic grip of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
The Party that was created to serve the interest of the State as a regional sentinel has failed to protect the regional interests; and bereft of democratic practices, has fallen a prey to autocratic design of Naveen Patnaik, which must no more be allowed, roared Sri Mohapatra, the main architect of BJD victory in 2009 general elections.
Along with him, eminent leaders of Occupy BJD Campaign like Rajendra Prasad Singh, Jagneswar Babu, Mihir Mohanty et al made it clear that their campaign shall continue till the party is put back to democratic tracks and salvaged from commission agents.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his yes-men in BJD are so panic-stricken that all out attempts was made all over the State to obstruct party dissidents to join the campaign.
Official machineries like the R.T.O.s and Police were used to ensure that the Occupy BJD Campaigners do not get transportation vehicles to reach Bhubaneswar.
In various political nerve-centers, the panic-struck yes-men resorted to tactics of criminal intimidation to dissuade the dissidents from attending the Bhubaneswar meet. They were subjected to physical assaults, wrongful restraints, bombardments, road-blockades, as has been captured live by media. Pelting of arsenals at the dissidents and attacks on vehicles carrying them were resorted to by the chief minister’s yes-men to frighten them away from proceeding towards Bhubaneswar to join the OBC. Yet, there were around 20 thousand members of BJD, who joined the OBC congregation.
The ruling party is discernibly in panic.
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