Patnaik kinds fact-finding group to probe ‘detention’ of Odisha panchayat members in Chhattisgarh

Patnaik shaped the fact-finding group of the BJD a day after writing a letter to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai asking him to make sure the instant launch of Vishal Das, son of former Odisha minister Naba Kishore Das, and a number of other panchayat representatives who had been allegedly detained by police within the neighbouring state.

The previous Odisha chief minister described the incident as “disturbing”.

He shaped a seven-member fact-finding group headed by former minister Niranjan Pujari and requested them to go to Jharsuguda and inquire into the circumstances beneath which the panchayat members went to Chhattisgarh, had been detained and later launched.

Pujari was requested to submit a report back to the BJD president after detailed investigation.

Patnaik in the course of the day met former MLA Dipali Das, who can be the daughter of slain former minister Naba Kishore Das and brother of Vishal Das.

“I met Patnaik and thanked him for standing beside my household as a member. He requested me to remain sturdy and face such soiled politics with confidence,” Dipali advised reporters after assembly Patnaik at Naveen Niwas, his residence.

At a press convention, Dipali got here down closely on the BJP authorities and accused it of violating democratic norms and utilizing Chhattisgarh Police to detain the BJD’s 12 panchayat members hailing from Jharsuguda district to be able to stop a no-confidence movement in opposition to the Kirimira block president.

Vishal Das, together with sarpanches and panchayat samiti members from Kirmira block, had been stored at Sareipali police station in Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh and later launched after Patnaik wrote a letter to Sai.

“My brother’s arrest concerned the collaboration of two states’ police and my household is being focused,” Dipali alleged on the press convention at Sankha Bhavan, the BJD’s state headquarters.

“After they sought to know in regards to the motive behind their detention, they had been advised by the police that they had been investigating the incident of lacking individuals. An inspector of a police station in Odisha was additionally current in Chhattisgarh,” she mentioned and alleged that the motive behind the incident was to cease the no-confidence movement in opposition to the Kirimira block chairperson.

Ruling BJP, nonetheless, strongly rejected Dipali’s allegations.

“The BJP respects democracy. Nevertheless, Naveen Patnaik has had at all times decimated democracy. Whoever is the offender will probably be given exemplary punishment,” BJP spokesperson Manoj Mohapatra mentioned.

BJP MLA Babu Singh alleged that the BJD has been obstructing the legislation on this case and interfering with the work of police.

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