Bhawanipatna: BJP national President JP Nadda Friday came down heavily on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for allegedly handing over the state to rule by a bureaucrat.
Addressing a massive Garib Kalyan Samavesh rally here Nadda questioned “Who is ruling Odisha? whether a politician or a bureaucrat?”
The BJP President slammed Naveen Patnaik for allowing a bureaucrat to rule the state where neither the MLAs nor the MPs have any power and nobody is listening to them.
He said “You (people) have given votes to someone while some other one is ruling the state,” and asked the people “Do you want this type of government to run the state or do you want a bureaucrat to rule your state?”
The BJP President further said everybody knows it is “Officers raj” in Odisha as Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has completely surrendered the state to bureaucracy and called upon the people to reject this government which has no right to rule the state anymore and bring the BJP and the double engine government to rule Odisha.
Nadda alleged that the BJD government in Odisha is also indulging in massive corruption and commission.
“This is a government of commission where 50 percent commission is being taken away in every work and nobody knows where this 50 percent commission goes?”
He said despite being ruled by the BJD for the last 23 years, Odisha is still in the lowest rank in the per capita income as well as in farmers’ income while the atrocities on women are highest in the country.
Nadda said, “Naveen Patnaik had promised to establish one cold storage in each block and provide 35 percent irrigation facilities in each block and asked the people has it happened during the last 23 years?”
Stating that there has been massive corruption in the selection of beneficiaries in the PM Awas Yojana in Odisha, the BJP President said he would ask the Union Minister Giriraj Singh to probe into the corruption in PM Awas Yojana, punish the culprits and send them to jail.
UNI