By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: Oppositions BJP and Congress continued to stall the proceedings of Odisha State Assembly seeking reply from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over the murder of teacher Mamita Meher and resignation of State Minister Dibya Shankar Mishra , for the second consecutive day on Thursday.
Since 10.30 am to 4 pm, House witnessed several adjournments with Oppositions boycotting the proceedings. BJP chief whip Mohan Majhi said, “We are demanding removal of Mishra and CBI probe into the Mamita Meher murder case. When we raised this issue during the question hour, the Speaker did not pay heed to our demands,”.The BJP will continue to raise the issue in the House till the demand is not fulfilled, Majhi said. Senior Congress member Santosh Singh Saluja said his party is also demanding removal of Minister DS Mishra to ensure a free and impartial probe.
BJD Spokesperson and Aul MLA Pratap Keshari Deb criticised the opposition for disturbing the House from the beginning. Though there are several public-interest issues like MSP, banking, telecom and LPG price hike, etc., the opposition stalled the House by raking up the Mamita Meher issue. This is a well-planned strategy of BJP and Congress to ignore main issues, Deb said. BJD MLAs also sat on dharna in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue in the premises of Assembly opposing price hike in petroleum and LPG gas prices.
