Pyari-Damodar war of wards warms BJD politics

By Our Correspondent
Bhubaneswar, Nov. 10: The internal bickering in the ruling BJD, especially between the Rajya Sabha member Pyarimohan Mohapatra and senior leader Dr Damodar Rout, has now come to the fore with both the leaders indulging in a fierce war or words. Hitting back at Dr Rout’s Tuesday’s remark there was no second person other than the chief minister Naveen Patnaik to assess his performance, Mr Mohapatra said the agriculture minister was apparently perceiving “some threat” to his position as the chief minister is set to start an evaluation exercise concerning functioning of his ministers. “You earn enemies when you work sincerely and whole heartedly for your party or for that matter any organisation. We are no exception to it,” Mr Mohapatra told in an interview with the local OTV channel. Dr Rout sought back: “There was time in the past when I used to evaluate performance of the people who are now boasting of shouldering the party responsibility and out to evaluate us.” Not to be left behind, the maverick BJD RS member, not be left behind, fought back saying “Dr Rout was a veterinary doctor when I was collector and later head of Dandakaranya project. Later, I was advisor to the then chief minister (Read Biju Patnaik) I never worked under him.” The war of words began recently after Mr Mohapatra, said to be the advisor chief minister Naveen Patnaik, indicated about a ministry reshuffle basing on the performance of the ministers.
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