Severe infighting has come to the fore in the Kalahandi district BJD unit on the eve of the organisational polls of the party. Two senior leaders demanded the ouster of the district president and former minister Balabhadra Majhi.
In a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, former MP Dhaneswar Majhi and former MLA Bira Sipka have demanded ouster of Balabhadra and sought a leader with clean image for the growth of the party in the district.
The two leaders have alleged that Balabhadra had failed in membership drive of the party as he could enrol only 872 active members from 13 blocks of the district.
They alleged that out of these 229 active members were enrolled from Bhawanipatna Assembly constituency alone.
Raising questions on the loyalty of Balabhadra towards the State leadership, the two former MLAs alleged that his native village is more than 80 km from Bhawanipatna and most of the time he remains at Bhubaneswar neglecting the party organisation in the district. During the daytime he takes your (Naveen Patnaik) name but at night he dances to the tune of your detractors, they said.
Alleging that there are no women active members of BJD in maximum number of blocks of the State, the two leaders said the population of Kalahandi district is 15.73 lakh but the number of BJD workers are only 21,800. This shows how Balabhadra has performed, they said and demanded his immediate ouster.
The two leaders alleged that more than 800 four-wheelers and 1,000 two-wheelers with BJD workers attended the Odisha Jana Morcha’s (OJM) rally at Bhawanipatna on November 19 with the tacit assistance from Balabhadra and former minister Pushpendra Singhdeo.
The brother of Pushpendra, Anil Singhdeo of Jaipatna block attended the OJM meeting with BJD workers, they added.
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