The Bharatiya Janata Party here on Sunday trained its guns on two BJD legislators of Cuttack city, accusing them of having links with the chit fund scam, multiple allotments of plots and with the mafias in the State.
The two legislators — Debashis Samantray and Pravat Biswal -- were in the firing line of the State BJP leaders, who were here to declare the office bearers of the party’s district working committee.
Addressing a press conference, the BJP leaders accused Mr. Samantray of having links with the mafia brothers and made a scathing attack on Mr. Biswal accusing him of being involved in the chit fund scam, receiving several plots from the Cuttack Development Authority (CDA) and being involved in tender fixing in association with crime syndicate.
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The BJP plans to submit memorandums to the CBI, vigilance DG and crime branch DG urging all the agencies to bring the two MLAs under the purview of the respective investigations, informed State BJP treasurer Binod Dash. “We will also submit a memorandum to the Cuttack District Collector highlighting the civic problems,” Mr. Dash said.
Former corporator Laxmidhar Pradhan has been elected president of the city BJP working committee. Manoranjan Sahoo, Minaketan Das and Subashis Kar would be the secretaries for a term of three years. While Diptee Narayan Sahoo will be the treasurer, the party has picked up eight leaders each as vice-presidents and joint secretaries.
Accuses them of having links with the mafias in the State and tender fixing