NEW DELHI: The heat generated by the pitched battle between the UPA coalition and the BJP-led NDA during the Lok Sabha debate on Friday led to
Facing Flak: Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik
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the disruption of the House.
While the BJP and ally BJD sought to project the sustained violence in the Kandhamal district as an outcome of tension between tribals and economically better-off, converted Scheduled Castes, Congress ascribed it to chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s inability to act under pressure from the BJP.
“When he decided to take into bed a snake, he was supposed to be bitten,” panchayati raj minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said.
There was a demand from the UPA benches that in situations like Kandhamal, the Centre should have the legal teeth to intervene.
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