Orissa Matters

Congress dismisses a leader whose only concern was strengthening of the Congress in Orissa!

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Orissa’s Soumya Ranjan Patnaik has been dismissed from the Congress Party, as his endeavors to strengthen the Congress in the State were viewed as stark indiscipline.

Earlier as disciplinary actions were initiated against him, we had predicted how this would be detrimental to the organization. The just concluded urban election has proved the accuracy of our prediction, as in the action initiated against SRP, people of Orissa again noted that the Congress high command stands not with the Congress in the State, but with the agents of POSCO – the BJD – at the time of elections. Had it not been so, the Congress could have achieved tremendous success in Orissa ULB elections.

Despite a noted offender like Jagdish Tytler imposed on Orissa Pradesh Congress by its national boss, Orissa had witnessed how the party was woken up from its slumber in the State by Sri Niranjan Patnaik after his appointment as president of the provincial committee. The unprecedented display of public support to Congress was marked in the mammoth rally at Bhubaneswar on September 06, 2012. And, as we had marked, the Congress was getting back its acceptability day by day under Niranjan Patnaik.

But all on a sudden, he was replaced with Jaydev Jena, whom the Congress had, at the verge of the last general election, replaced with the son of the tyrant king of Dhenkanal whose tyranny was exterminated by the organized body of the tortured people – Praja Mandal – that forced him to abdicate his kingship and merge his State with the new independent country.

As there was no logic behind replacement of Jaydev Jena by K.P.Singhdeo at that time, there is no logic behind replacement of Niranjan Patnaik with Jaydev Jena this time.

But all these times, the discernible design of the Congress high command has remained same. Come elections, Congress high command injects confusion into psyche of Orissa voters about the stability and acceptability of whosoever leads the Congress in the State, so that the agent of POSCO retains power in Orissa.

This time, lest the people get glimpses of this secret design, Jairam Ramesh – somewhat considered pro-environment by the people here, hence far from POSCO and the likes – was shrewdly used to convey that the Congress is right in initiating disciplinary actions against SRP.

And, finally, the design has succeeded in dismissal of SRP.

Had the Congress motive not been vitiated with the design to help Naveen by deliberate weakening of the Congress in Orissa, the entire leadership of the Congress party should have stood with SRP and adopted the method he was using to strengthen the Congress. But that was never to be and that has not been. Fate of Congress in next election is doomed. Its electoral prospects would never be salvaged by any leader it has planted in the State. It may pin its hope only on an yet to evolve environment when the masses like the asses will rise up against the ruling commission agents of Orissa chapter, if at all that happens.

Should the prodigal son return home?

As far as SRP is concerned, as a man who knows him and wants his potentiality used for betterment of Orissa, I would like to suggest that he should go back to BJP. Under the wave Modi has already created, BJP should have become an achiever in the just concluded ULB election, as fellows of class character akin to BJP constitute the commanding layer in urban areas. But, it is in such sophomoric hands in Orissa that it has suspended Murli Manohar Sharma, the man totally dedicated to BJP, who could manage to help BJP take over Barbil ULB with mere two members in the Council. In fact, with the present set of leadership, BJP has no prospect in Orissa. So, if the wave being created by Modi is to be taken advantage of in Orissa, BJP must need a new leader with tremendous mass contact in the State. And, under such circumstances, if BJP approaches SRP, he being never averse to political economy of capitalism that BJP stands for, there should be no hesitation on his part to accept the BJP offer. Thereby, the prodigal son may return home and the POSCO agent in power in Orissa may be shown the door.

Need of Orissa

If this does not happen, SRP should consult his colleagues and friends to transform AMA ODISHA to a provincial political party. To safeguard Orissa’s regional interest, BJD having gone to the pockets of POSCO and the likes, Orissa essentially needs a strong political sentinel of her own. And, AMA ODISHA can be that political sentinel, with no specific political economy, but with the single aim to do everything that suits Orissa.

A Prime Minister of no self-respect

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

It is sad that Sri Manmohan Singh has not yet resigned.

He should have asked the Congress President to suspend Rahul Gandhi forthwith for stark indiscipline, immediately after he called him nonsense in training the obnoxious word for the ordinance he crafted to protect elected representatives from the sway of the Supreme Court judgement in WP ( C ) 490 of 2005 and WP ( C ) 231 of 2005 delivered by Justice A. K. Patnaik on July 10, 2013 issuing a mandamus for debarment of a jailed person from contesting election and for immediate disqualification of a convicted criminal from membership of any legislative house.

Had Sonia not heard him, he should have resigned. But he has not.

He stands sans any credibility now.

He should have quashed his scheduled Sunday talk with his Pakistani counterpart after Nawaz Sharif’s asinine remark equating him with a dehati aurat got spread by a Pakistani reporter to the total embarrassment of India. But he did not.

Barkha Dutt’s acrobatics notwithstanding, India is not accepting that Sharif’s dehati aurat was just a misconstrued pick from “an allegorical tale” he had told on a cup of tea.

Singh is of course a master in keeping mum on serious allegations. And, now also he shall do nothing but keeping mum.

History shall record him as a prime minister of no self-respect.

Konark temple owes its philosophical origin to Langudi

Konark temple owes its philosophical origin to Langudi.

The Nonsense

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

The son of the lady autocrat of the party of family factotums – the Congress – has given a remote slap on the face of prime minister Manmohan Singh for the nonsense he concussed the country with, in pursuit of his design to keep Indian Houses of representatives sanctuaries of rogues.

And, to condemn the prime minister’s action as wrong and nonsense, he preferred to address the press!

In a just and welcomed-by-the-people-judgment, the Supreme Court of India had tried to cleanse the houses of people’s representatives of the criminals that infest the ramparts of democracy. Except only one party, i.e. the Communist Party of India (CPI), all other major parties have their packs of criminals in the legislative houses. The highest number of criminals that have entered into the Parliament and Assemblies belong to the Congress party when the second highest numbers of them are members of BJP. On the basis of data collected from candidates’ affidavits submitted while filing nomination papers, 30% of elected representatives are stark criminals/ fellows with criminal records. In order to help democracy get rid of the criminals, the Supreme Court had delivered a historic case law that deserves to be regarded as the wisest step for safeguarding Indian democracy at the present juncture.

In stead of honoring the case law created by the Supreme Court, the criminal-dominated political parties – the ruling Congress with the majority of criminals followed by the main opposition BJP – formed a nasty nexus to foil the case law. And, the prime mister, who, had the criminals not been ruling the roost, should never have thrived in power, ensured that a law be made by the Parliament to assure the criminals of continuity in their privileged positions and the Bill in this respect, despite being anti- people, got nod in the upper house of Parliament, as birds of the same feathers flocked together.

The lower house of Parliament could have also passed it had technicalities permitted. Span of the session of the lower house was expanded to play this trick upon the people. But in this country, nasty designs do not always click.

With the session over, criminals – majority in the Congress – started fidgeting, as , in an environment of judicial screening, uncertainty grew over the Bill, which was clearly contrived to foil the mandamus issued by the Supreme Court.

So, the ordinance was coined. With a seasoned sycophant of the Congress autocrat in the chair of the country’s President, it was expected that, despite the right-wingers’ drama of objection, the ordinance will get signed and enforced.

It was never witnessed by any that the son of the lady autocrat of the Congress had any objection to the said ordinance. Manmohan Singh is such a docile acolyte of the Congress autocrat that he prided recently in saying that he would consider it a privilege to work under Rahul Gandhi, who, in his opinion should be the best choice for the prime minister post. So, only an idiot can take it, that, Singh had preferred the ordinance without the approval of the Congress autocrat or her son Rahul.

Why then Rahul calls the Ordinance a nonsense? Why he deliberately told the press a few hours ago that he considers the act of Manmohan Singh administration in factoring the ordinance entirely wrong and nonsense? Why?

Let Rahul give the answer. He has no right to take the nation for granted.

It may not be wrong to assume that by openly embarrassing Manmohan Singh , Rahul wants to hoodwink the people with a new attire of emancipator. He wants to give the message that Singh’s administration is wrong and nonsense and he, as a man with sense, has no support for Singh’s nonsense.

Speculations rife that the Congress will now press for withdrawal of the ordinance and the Singh administration shall comply with that to establish before the eyes of the people that it is Rahul who alone has the sense to eliminate administrative nonsense.

What a monstrous farce!

If Singh has an iota of shame, he shall resign. If he refuses to resign, sycophants of the lady autocrat will force him to resign. Then Rahul shall immediately take over and as per design, reverse the priority of administration from Americanism to Aam Indian Admi. This will be ample reason to expect survival of Congress despite all the scams it has patronized and all the damages it has done to Indian democracy.

And, is it as per American design?

Citizens Convention creates a Committee to protect women

In a citizens convention participated by eminent activists and intellectuals comprising University Professors, teachers, journalists, lawyers, doctors, engineers and artists at Lohia Academy Auditorium on Sept.22, 2013, a Committee has been formed to ensure protection of women from atrocities.

Presided over by Prof. Aruna Mishra, the convention deliberated upon the base paper placed by social activist Ms. Bijaylaxmi Patra and was addressed by Prof. Rita Roy, Prof. Lambodar Prasad Singh, Prof. Birendra Nayak, Journalist Subhas Chandra Pattanayak, Writer Aparna Nayak, Actor Narayan Pati, Urdu Poet Rehna Khanam, Er. Aksaya Das and Smt Anita Mishra amongst others.

The convention that commenced with silent standing ovation to the heroic girls and women extinguished at the alter of brutality by rapists at different corners of the country including Orissa, resolved to create a Committee to build up an environment where women will feel safe and atrocities of every sort shall stop.

A resolution to this effect was unanimously adopted, with a Committee constituted with the following members:

Advisory Body

Sj. Raghunath Mohapatra, 2. Prof. Swadhin Pattanaik, 3. Prof. Aruna
Mishra, 4. Prof. Ashutosh Parida, 5. Journalist Subash Chandra Pattanayak, 6. Prof. Sanghamitra Mishra, 7. Actor Ajit Das, 8. Prof. Birendra Kumar Nayak;

Executive Office bearers

Prof. Rita Ray (President), 1. Dr. Kanta Das Mohapatra, Scientist, 2. Smt. Gayatri Pattanaik, Principal, 3. Smt. Anita Mishra, Research Scholar, 4. Smt. Aparna Nayak, Writer, 5. Smt. Rehena Khanam, Urdu Poet, 6. Dr. Smrutirekha Mohanty, Doctor, 7. Smt. Subhra Das, Teacher & Writer, 8. Sj. Narayan Pati, Film Artist & Director, 9. Sj. Biswapriya Kanungo, Human right activist, and 10. Sj. Bipin Bihari Tripathy,Rtd Teacher (All Vice- Presidents); Smt. Bijaylaxmi Patra (Secretary); 1. Smt. Prava Manjula Brahma, Social Activist, 2. Smt. Nandita Mahato, Social Activist, 3. Smt. Binodini Jena, Teacher, 4. Smt. Sujata Dhal, Teacher,5. Smt. Sarasi Das, Artist, 6. Swosti Sangeta Dalei, Student Leader, 7. Sj. Bikram Keshari Routray, Lecturer, 8. Sj. Kishor Kumar Barik, Advocate, 9. Sj. Subhranshu Sekhar Mohanty, Advocate, 10. Sj. Sudhanshu Sekhar Tripathy, Advocate
11. Sj. Prabhu, Music Director, 12. Pratap Senapati, Research Scholar
Sangram Swain, Social Activist, 14. Dr. Biswashree Gyanna Ranjan
Nayak, 15. Niranjan Mohanty, Advocate, and 16. Subash Chandra Nayak, Social Activist (All Organising Secretaries); Saptarsini Roul (Treasurer); and

Executive Members

1. Saraswati Sethi, 2. Smt. Kalpana Sethy, 3. Smt. Sujata Nayak, 4. Smt. Puspa Nayak, 5. Smt. Sanjukta Jena, 6. Smt. Kuni Akhua ,7. Saraswati Badajena, 8. Smt. Nirupama Mallick, 9. Rita Bhoi, 10. Sujata Behera, 11. Smt. Katayani Niranjan, 12. Smt. Sabita Mallick, 13. E. Santanu Kumar Patra, 14. Smt. Rama Behera, 15. Smt. Saila Barik, 16. Sj. Suresh Das, 17. Upendra Barik, 18. Manas Kumar Panda, 19. Sj. Srinibas Das, 20. Santosh Rath, and 21. Rajendra Burma

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seems to have developed a wrong notion that governance of Orissa in Oriya depends upon his mercy. His press-note of December 17 and full page display advertisement in major broadsheets of today force us to arrive at this apprehension.

In his December 17 press note it was declared that he had held a meeting with the five members of the ministerial committee on that day for the purpose of “strictly implementing the Orissa Official Language Act, 1954 in official and non-official level” to facilitate which a website has been floated by the government. In the full page multi-color advertisement in broadsheet dailies today, this is intriguingly missing.

The advertisement is designed to tell the people that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has taken historical steps to save and develop Oriya language, and has enumerated the steps he has taken. This is blatant lie. Neither he nor his government has executed any single item claimed to be “historical” in the official advertisement. The entire advertisement is nothing but false propaganda. What a shame it is, that, the people of Orissa are taken for granted by their Chief Minister! Read more →