orissadiary.com, Jan 12, 2010
Report by Orissadiary correspondent; Bhawanipatna (Odisha): After assuming charge as State President of BJP Jual Oram made his maiden visit to Kalahandi . He was accorded rousing reception right from the borders by motorcade riders in hundreds with party flags and festoons. At Bhawanipatna Town Hall he along with senior party leaders like BJP leader in Assembly K.V.Singhdeo, senior leader Ashok Sahu, Ex-MLA Nuapada Basanta Panda, Ex-Minister Pradip Naik, attended a meeting of 600 strong party workers drawn from nooks and corners of the district up to Gram Panchayat level. The meeting was presided over by Ex-minister and new district president, BJP Himansu Meher.
BJP legislature leader Kanak Vardhan Singhdeo spoke on mining scam as unprecedented in scale and degree. He insisted for handing over the matter to CBI should Naveen Pattnaik the C.M. wants to prove his non-involvement in three lakh crore worth plunder of peoples wealth. Vigilance Department whose minister is C.M. himself is incapable of bringing the truth to surface , he alleged. He further said that for last nine years during Naveen’s tenure as C.M seven thousand crores of rupees per annum was being pilfered by illegal mining which was being siphoned away to parties outside Orissa and a huge part to China. He also alleged that Vedanta is also in collusion with Churches of Europe who have shares in the Vedanta Company which has a hidden agenda to invade India’s culture by having an anti-Indian University in the very centre of Jagannath Culture at Puri.
Ashok Sahu, the senior party leader urged the party workers to pledge to dislodge this government who have a hidden agenda to exploit state resources by mortgaging mines to foreign companies. Quoting Lord Acton he said that ‘Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and Naveen government is a burning example of a such corrupt government.’
Jual Oram in his concluding remarks condemned the failure of the government in all fronts such as maintenance of law and order; safeguarding the farmers interest who are committing suicide in distress; safeguarding employment of the educated youth as well as in protecting the poor by implementing the poverty alleviation programmes. The Maoists are being used as muscle power of the party in power to give protection to persons the C.M. likes and terrorize those whom he dislikes. Sri Oram cited the example of Arabinda Dhali who is no longer troubled by the Maoists ever since he joined the Biju Janata Dal. Even the mining lease holders are operating under the protection ring given by the Maoists in Keonjhar and Sundargarh district, Oram alleged.
At Circuit House, Jual Oram addressed a well-attended press conference at Bhawanipatna. He was accompanied by senior state and district level leaders, before the Press. Referring to Dalai Lama’s visit and failure of the state government to accord him honour as a State Guest , Shri Oram accused the C.M. to have acted to please the local Maoist Leaders. Since China is opposed to Dalai Lama and Maoists are agents of China, Orissa C.M. has also indirectly ignored Dalai Lama which is contrary to our foreign policy as a sovereign state, he said. He termed Naveen Pattnaiik’s conduct in this context as of “low taste” . Jual Oram reiterated BJP’s policy that Maoists, as long as do not abjure violence, even if they take up issues of the poor which is designed to usurp State power by undemocratic means deserves to be tackled effectively by the government to restore order.
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