By Our Correspondent
KENDRAPARA/BHUBANESWAR: If you are writing , saying or showing something about Kendrapara’s BJD Lok Sabha MP Anubhav Mohanty , please be careful or ready to face the Dabang style of the actor turn Lower House Member in Parliament.
On Tuesday, even in front Kendrapara Collector’s office, the MP Mohanty misbehaved with OTV’s Correspondent Manoj Swain and used some unsocial words towards the Journalist amid applause from his supporters gathered at the spot. In last two months, it was second such case in which, the Kendrapara MP misbehaved with media persons.
Within months of his election, a Cuttack based Woman Journalist Sasmita Acharya had lodged FIR at Purighat police station in Cuttack under Sections 294 (obscene act in public), 354 (A) (sexual harassment), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 34 (criminal act) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against the MP.
The Local police in Cuttack had recorded statements of woman journalist, Sasmita Acharya, who had accused BJD’s Kendrapara MP at the JMFC court in Cuttack under section 164 of CrPC but no action taken against the BJD National Spokesperson. The FIR also figured MP’s actress wife Barsa Priyadarshini Mohanty and Brother Anuprasa Mohanty, who is interested in mining business in Keonjhar-Sundargarh.
Few weeks back, Manjit Das of Cuttack, who is also State Vice-President of BJD’s Students’ Wing, Biju Chhtra Janata Dal had alleged that Party’s MP from Kendrapara Anubhav Mohanty mentally and physically harassing him. Meanwhile, a video purportedly showing the MP and Das involved in a heated exchange of words had gone viral.
Even though BJD has made Anubhav Mohanty as one of their National Spokesperson but not a single day anyone can see the MP in TV channel in National debates or debates relating to Odisha’s interest. “Not a single impressive developmental work has been taken by the MP since his election to Lok Sabha, added a local in Kendrapara.
