politicians while the people at large are living under fear due to deterioration in the law and order situation,” NCP state unit president Bijay Mohapatra said at a press conference here.
“Such lawlessness had never prevailed in the State in the past,” Mohapatra observed.
Mohapatra alleged that the Chief Minister was not initiating criminal action against anyone, and was trying his best to hide his “failures and inefficiencies” by ordering inquiries by various agencies and authorities.
“The Chief Minister has been enacting the drama of ordering inquiries into various crimes all these years, while the criminals are continuing their activities both from inside and outside the jails,” Mohapatra charged.
Criticising Patnaik's decision that the government should request the Lok Pal for a probe into the alleged police-bureaucrat-criminal nexus that had come to the fore in the wake of the murder of Judo coach Biranchi Das, Mohapatra observed that the Lok Pal was a Constitutional body to probe into corruption at high levels and not to investigate into matters pertaining to crimes.
Alleging that the Chief Minister was in the know of involvement his party leaders in various crimes and political patronisation of criminals, Mohapatra said Patnaik, as Home Minister, should himself offer to come under the Lok Pal probe into the alleged police-bureaucrat-criminal nexus.
Holding Patnaik responsible for the deterioration in the law and order situation in the State, the NCP leader demanded that the criminals operating in various parts of Orissa should be brought to book without delay.
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