Friday, 19 September 2014 | BASANT RATH |
NABARANGPUR |
The Congress called a 10-hour hartal in the Nabarangpur Assembly constituency on Thursday demanding action against Nabarangpur BJD MLA Manohar Randhari for his alleged involvement in the torture of former chairperson of Tentulikhunti block Prabhati Kandha.
Normal life was affected in many parts of the constituency. Shops and other business establishments remained closed in this town. Vehicular traffic came to a grinding halt as buses, trucks, auto-rickshaws and were off the roads.
On September 15, Prabhati lodged a complaint with the police alleging that during the elections in April this year she had given Randhari Rs 4 lakh and gold ornaments weighting 70 gram in the presence of some party activists which the MLA has not returned.
Prabhati also alleged that Randhari had attempted to have physical relationship with her, but she strongly resisted it. Unhappy with her, the MLA allegedly hatched a conspiracy to remove her from the post of block chairperson.
The police have already made a station diary after receiving the complaint and the matter is under investigation.
Meanwhile BJD district youth president Badri Narayan Singh told the media that Prabhati never complained about the ‘harassment’ or money before the district party president and any executive member. After the no-confidence motion against her, she resigned from the chairperson post. She is now trying to tarnish the image of the MLA, he added.
BJD district general secretary Asis Ranjan Patnaik also told the media that prior to this during her Sarpanch tenure in the year 2000, Prabhati had questionably directed the panchayat secretary Radha Kanta Bissoyi to approve work orders. But when Bissoyi did not agree, she filed a fabricated report of sexual harassment before the police. While the police refused to register a case, she also filed a complaint case before the SDJM, Nabarangpur which did not succeed.
NABARANGPUR |The Congress called a 10-hour hartal in the Nabarangpur Assembly constituency on Thursday demanding action against Nabarangpur BJD MLA Manohar Randhari for his alleged involvement in the torture of former chairperson of Tentulikhunti block Prabhati Kandha.
Normal life was affected in many parts of the constituency. Shops and other business establishments remained closed in this town. Vehicular traffic came to a grinding halt as buses, trucks, auto-rickshaws and were off the roads.
On September 15, Prabhati lodged a complaint with the police alleging that during the elections in April this year she had given Randhari Rs 4 lakh and gold ornaments weighting 70 gram in the presence of some party activists which the MLA has not returned.
Prabhati also alleged that Randhari had attempted to have physical relationship with her, but she strongly resisted it. Unhappy with her, the MLA allegedly hatched a conspiracy to remove her from the post of block chairperson.
The police have already made a station diary after receiving the complaint and the matter is under investigation.
Meanwhile BJD district youth president Badri Narayan Singh told the media that Prabhati never complained about the ‘harassment’ or money before the district party president and any executive member. After the no-confidence motion against her, she resigned from the chairperson post. She is now trying to tarnish the image of the MLA, he added.
BJD district general secretary Asis Ranjan Patnaik also told the media that prior to this during her Sarpanch tenure in the year 2000, Prabhati had questionably directed the panchayat secretary Radha Kanta Bissoyi to approve work orders. But when Bissoyi did not agree, she filed a fabricated report of sexual harassment before the police. While the police refused to register a case, she also filed a complaint case before the SDJM, Nabarangpur which did not succeed.
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