Saswat Panigrahi
The BJD has a competitor now. And it is not the Opposition
Congress or the BJP. The threat now comes straight from Naveen Patnaik’s former
advertiser-turned bete noire Pyari Mohan Mohapatra.
It was just six months ago Pyari Mohan attempted a failed
coup to dislodge Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik when he was away in UK – his
first visit abroad in 12 years.
Pyari’s botched-up attempt to gather power in Naveen’s
absence initially earned him a suspension and recently an expulsion from the
BJD.
Mohapatra, who floated a pressure group called Odisha Jana
Morcha (OJM) to “ensure democracy” within the BJD is now converting it into a
full-fledged political party. The OJM is a party of BJD dissenters that aims at
destabilising the party by eating into its support base.
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