A Letter: Humiliating Orissa!!!

To
The Prime Minister of India, Dr Singh

CC:
Smt Sonia Gandhi and Congress Leaders,

Dear Prime Minister Dr. Singh,

As in last five years we have not realized a single instance where you have offered any things to Orissa unless people of Orissa fight for it. It is also true that Orissa people did not vote overwhelmingly to Congress party in this election as you never wanted them to vote for you.

Here is the summary of your ignorance towards Orissa.

(1) When you became the PM of India in 2004 one of the first things your government did was shift an announced for National Institute of Sciences (NIS) in Bhubaneswar to Kolkata. It took Orissa-wide demonstrations and a supreme court case for you to make amends and declare the establishment of a National Institute of Science Education and Research in Bhubaneswar.

(2) When Orissa MPs discussed with you about Orissa' development you reported to have replied "Money does not grows in trees."

(3) In 2004 you humiliated Orissa by not giving a single minister from Orissa though Orissa elected 2 MPs from Orissa (when NDA Govt was in power despite there were no MP Kerala was under consideration for a ministry). Eventually to avoid much pressure and demand you added a minister of state from Orissa after around 3 years.

(4) Your HRD minister of state had mentioned in a speech in Patna that there will be an IIT in Orissa, but subsequently Orissa was not in the list. Again, after a lot of protests and demonstrations in Orissa, you included Orissa as one of the locations of a new IIT in the second round.

(5) Your Government has completely ignorned railway need in KBK region and a railway factory there.

(6) And finally now, Congress gets 6 Lok Sabha MPs from Orissa, 4 more than what it had in 2004 but you failed to give them proper representation in your cabinet. At least 3 of the elected MPs such as Hemanda Biswal, Srikan Jena and Bhakta Charan Das from Orissa are deserving and experince candidate to become a cabinet minister. More over in Western Orissa your party won 5 out of 6 MPs in Orissa, but not a single MP was made a minister.

Rather you and your party leadership are arguing saying it was based on talent.

Sir, do you mean that Oriya people do not have talent? Bhakta Das or Hemanada Biswal is inferior to any other x, y or z in your ministry, those come from Soniaji & Rahulji's political coterie !!!

Leaders like Bhakta Das, a former state minister with independent charge, has won with huge margin in Orissa and also helped winning congress candidates in many MLA seats where oppostion party was very strong. He was also a minister of state with independent Charge for railway.

Similalrly, Mr Jena was a fromer cabinet minister for parliment affairs and tourism, and despite having BJD wave in whole costal distircts he won in Balasore.

Hemananda Biswal has at least won 6 times to state assembly and was Chief Minister of Orissa in more than two ocassions.

Sir, do you want to give a message that ministers and chief ministers from Orissa do not have talent unlike those in Karnataka, Maharastra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal etc?

You are being also an academician, more experinced as well as wise than me, I leave the judgement to you, however, I can only conclude that, knowingly or unknowingly, you have been neglecting Orissa most during your prime ministership unlike any other prime minister.

I do not know whether I should rather thank you for this humiliation.

Best regards