Bhubaneswar, Sep 27 (PTI) In the backdrop of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik rating the Narendra Modi government '8 out of 10', the state units of the BJP and Congress on Wednesday gave the BJD dispensation 'zero' for being neck-deep in corruption.
Pandian has been accused of wielding extrajudicial powers; Odisha CM says the exercise of hearing grievances of people had been completed at a fraction of time as officials flew down, rather than travel by road; also saved people the cost of coming to the state capital
Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, who has questioned V K Pandian’s helicopter rides to districts for attending “grievance meetings”, removed as party vice-president, claims no leader has a role in the organisation