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  • Anna of Odisha politics Surjya Narayan Patro passes away

    By Express News Service

    BHUBANESWAR: One of the senior-most BJD leaders and former speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly Surjya Narayan Patro handed away at a personal hospital right here on Saturday. He was 75.

    A seven-time MLA, Patro gained 4 instances from the Mohana Assembly seat in Gajapati district and thrice from Digapahandi in Ganjam district. The sitting MLA of Digapahandi had by no means tasted electoral defeat in his greater than three-decade-long energetic political profession.

    Patro had the distinctive distinction of being a minister within the Janata Dal authorities of Biju Patnaik after his first election to the Assembly in 1990. After BJD got here to energy in 2000, Patro emerged as a continuing characteristic within the Naveen Patnaik cabinet until the fifteenth Assembly (2014-19).

    He held essential portfolios like Energy, Revenue and Disaster Management, Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare, Cooperation, Forest and Environment, Information Technology and Tourism and Culture. After the 2019 elections, he was elected as speaker of the Assembly and needed to depart the submit in June final 12 months due to well being points.

    A veteran in Ganjam politics, Patro, an advocate by occupation, began his political profession as a councillor of Berhampur Municipality in 1977. An ardent follower of legendary Biju Patnaik from his pupil days, Anna (as Patro was fondly known as) then took a plunge into electoral politics in 1990 and by no means appeared again. He was elected to the Assembly consecutively for seven instances.

    A widely-travelled Patro loved his stint as Energy Minister probably the most. A very good orator, he had the uncommon expertise to know the topic rapidly and provides an extempore speech on any situation with out batting an eyelid. Once he was addressing a gathering of state electrical energy regulators from throughout the nation as Energy Minister.

    As he began talking in regards to the reforms undertaken by the Odisha authorities in energy sector and the rising points earlier than the regulator to handle, a few of the regulators from exterior the state have been taken abruptly by Patro’s deep understanding of topics like engineering and commerce.

    A person of all seasons, Patro endeared himself to everybody together with his bitter political rivals. He had style for meals and liked to gorge on sweets regardless of being diabetic. He is survived by his spouse Rajshree, two sons and a daughter. P5

    BHUBANESWAR: One of the senior-most BJD leaders and former speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly Surjya Narayan Patro handed away at a personal hospital right here on Saturday. He was 75.

    A seven-time MLA, Patro gained 4 instances from the Mohana Assembly seat in Gajapati district and thrice from Digapahandi in Ganjam district. The sitting MLA of Digapahandi had by no means tasted electoral defeat in his greater than three-decade-long energetic political profession.

    Patro had the distinctive distinction of being a minister within the Janata Dal authorities of Biju Patnaik after his first election to the Assembly in 1990. After BJD got here to energy in 2000, Patro emerged as a continuing characteristic within the Naveen Patnaik cabinet until the fifteenth Assembly (2014-19).googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    He held essential portfolios like Energy, Revenue and Disaster Management, Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare, Cooperation, Forest and Environment, Information Technology and Tourism and Culture. After the 2019 elections, he was elected as speaker of the Assembly and needed to depart the submit in June final 12 months due to well being points.

    A veteran in Ganjam politics, Patro, an advocate by occupation, began his political profession as a councillor of Berhampur Municipality in 1977. An ardent follower of legendary Biju Patnaik from his pupil days, Anna (as Patro was fondly known as) then took a plunge into electoral politics in 1990 and by no means appeared again. He was elected to the Assembly consecutively for seven instances.

    A widely-travelled Patro loved his stint as Energy Minister probably the most. A very good orator, he had the uncommon expertise to know the topic rapidly and provides an extempore speech on any situation with out batting an eyelid. Once he was addressing a gathering of state electrical energy regulators from throughout the nation as Energy Minister.

    As he began talking in regards to the reforms undertaken by the Odisha authorities in energy sector and the rising points earlier than the regulator to handle, a few of the regulators from exterior the state have been taken abruptly by Patro’s deep understanding of topics like engineering and commerce.

    A person of all seasons, Patro endeared himself to everybody together with his bitter political rivals. He had style for meals and liked to gorge on sweets regardless of being diabetic. He is survived by his spouse Rajshree, two sons and a daughter. P5

  • Speaker requires all celebration meet in the present day

    By Express News Service

    BHUBANESWAR: Speaker of the Assembly Surjya Narayan Patro has known as for an all celebration assembly on Tuesday forward of the six-day session of the Assembly which is scheduled to start on March  25.

    The assembly is normally convened two days earlier than the beginning of the Assembly session. But this time, it has been convened 10 days earlier than the beginning of the session as legislators are busy with the city native physique elections. The Speaker informed mediapersons that the session will embody query hour, zero hour and adjournment motions. 

    Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal will ship the inaugural handle on March 25. The vote of thanks on the Governor’s handle can be mentioned in home for 3 days on March 25, 26 and 28. Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will current the vote on account for 2022-23 on March 30 and the appropriation invoice can be handed on March 31. The Speaker stated that the all celebration assembly will talk about methods for the sleek conduct of the home.

  • Odisha BJP to satisfy Governor to submit grievance towards Speaker

    By ANI
    BHUBANESWAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party delegation will meet Odisha Governor to submit a grievance towards Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro for arbitrarily passing Bills in the home.

    Speaking to ANI, the Leader of Opposition within the Odisha Assembly Pradipta Kumar Naik mentioned, “Speaker is not allowing the Opposition to speak in the houses. He is playing prejudice. We will submit a complaint with Governor regarding this. We will also request him to send back the Bills passed forcefully in the Assembly without holding a discussion in the house.”

    Odisha Assembly on Saturday witnessed ugly scenes after sneakers, microphones and different objects have been hurled at Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro’s podium following noisy protests over the alleged arbitrary passage of some payments within the House.

    “I am not favouring the shoe hurling incident. We could beg an apology for any such incident but I am unaware of who all were involved in the incident. But the Speaker has curtailed all the constitutional guidelines today. He is acting like a worker of a party. As a Leader of Opposition, I was not allowed to speak. The bills were passed arbitrarily amid heavy ruckus. On Monday, we will meet the Governor and apprise him about arbitrary passing of bills,” Naik had informed the home.

    Three BJP MLAs, Jayanarayan Mishra, Bishnu Prasad Sethi and Mohan Majhi have been suspended for the remaining intervals of the session by the speaker as demanded by Congress and BJD MLAs.

    Though it’s unclear who hurled such objects within the House, authorities chief whip Pramila Mallick had alleged that sneakers, earphone and papers have been hurled by deputy Leader of Opposition Bishnu Sethi, MLA Jaya Narayan Mishra and Opposition chief whip Mohan Majhi.After Question Hour, ruckus broke out within the Odisha Assembly because the Speaker refused to permit adjournment movement over the problem of ‘mining enterprise’ introduced by the Congress.BJP MLAs additionally created pandemonium demanding a dialogue on mining rip-off. Later, sneakers, headphones and different objects have been hurled on the Speaker’s podium. 

  • Odisha BJP MLAs hurl slippers in the direction of Speaker’s podium, three suspended

    By Express News Service
    BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Assembly on Saturday witnessed ugly scenes when some Opposition BJP MLAs allegedly hurled slippers, earphones, and papers on the Speaker’s podium protesting in opposition to the hurried method wherein the Odisha Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill was handed within the House.

    Later within the afternoon, Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro suspended three BJP MLAs, deputy chief of the Opposition Bisnu Charan Sethi, Opposition chief whip Mohan Charan Majhi and former minister Jay Narayan Mishra after inspecting the video footage of the incident which passed off within the pre-lunch session. The suspension will probably be in drive until the tip of the price range session which can conclude on April 6.

    Describing the Speaker’s choice as undemocratic, the BJP MLAs led by chief of the Opposition Pradipta Kumar Naik, protested in opposition to the Speaker’s motion by staging a dharna close to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the meeting premises.

    Earlier, BJP members had been seen protesting from their seats when the House handed the Odisha Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill inside minutes with none dialogue. The Congress members had been additionally seen protesting as Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro had rejected an adjournment movement discover given by them on alleged corruption in mining actions.

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    The two senior BJP MLAs, Sethi and Mishra had been seen standing on their seats and throwing some objects in the direction of the Speaker’s desk as a mark of protest. The objects hurled by them had been slippers, papers, pen, dustbin and earphone. However, the slippers and different supplies didn’t attain the rostrum.

    However, Sethi refused the allegation of throwing slippers in the direction of the Speaker’s podium. Mishra additionally stated that he doesn’t know what precisely he has thrown. “I have no idea what precisely I’ve thrown, however he (speaker) deserves this sort of behaviour. He doesn’t operate in a democratic method,” he stated.

    Government Chief Whip Pramila Mallick informed mediapersons exterior the House that Mishra and Sethi hurled slippers and earphones whereas Majhi threw the earphone. “They (BJP members) are doing so just to remain in the news”, she stated.

    Leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) Narasingha Mishra condemned the incident and described it as unlucky. He alleged that the Congress had served a discover for a dialogue on largescale irregularities in mining actions, which has been rejected by the Speaker with none purpose. “It is alsounfortunate that bills are passed in the House without discussion. Bills should not be passed when the House is not in order,” he stated.

    The Leader of the Opposition stated that the BJP members weren’t allowed to talk. The Opposition chief whip stated that the BJP members additionally wished a dialogue on the unlawful mining actions. But the Speaker didn’t enable it, he stated and requested, “Is it democratic.”

  • House panel on railway to satisfy over Odisha demand

    By Express News Service
    BHUBANESWAR: Even because the Opposition Congress has demanded that Odisha ought to search at the very least Rs 10,000 crore for railway sector in 2021-22 Union Budget, Speaker of the Assembly Surjya Narayan Patro mentioned he’ll convene a gathering of the House Committee quickly to debate the requirement of the State.

    The Speaker who’s the Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Railways, nonetheless, mentioned it could not be doable for the panel to journey to New Delhi in view of the Covid-19 pandemic to submit a memorandum to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. A call will likely be taken concerning the subsequent course solely on the assembly of the committee, he mentioned. 

    The Speaker mentioned completely different Assembly committees have began assembly because the pandemic has subsided a little bit. Three committees on border dispute, energy and setting headed by him have already met over the past week. “The Railway Committee meeting will be convened soon,” he mentioned.

    The State authorities, throughout the pre-budget session with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, has sought Rs 7,200 crore for Odisha in 2021-22 price range for growth of rail infrastructure. However, the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) has demanded that an all social gathering delegation of the Assembly ought to meet the Railway Minister at New Delhi to put the demand.

    Senior BJD legislator Amar Prasad Satpathy mentioned the committee will talk about elevated funding for varied ongoing railway initiatives within the 2021-22 price range. Last 12 months, a delegation of meeting committee had met the Railway Minister at New Delhi on February 12 to submit memorandum containing Odisha’s demand within the railway sector, although the price range was positioned on February 1. 

    In 2020-21, Odisha’s share within the railway price range was Rs 4,373 crore, a lower of 27 per cent from 2019-20, when the State had obtained allocations of Rs 5,993 crore. This 12 months additionally the Union Budget goes to be positioned on February 1. A delegation of MPs from Odisha ought to meet the Railway Minister at New Delhi to submit the memorandum, mentioned OPCC spokesperson Nishikanta Mishra and added that the State authorities ought to demand enhanced funding for completion of the continued railway initiatives together with Khurda Road-Balangir railway mission.