**Bhubaneswar: ** Being both euphoric and apprehensive in the wake of the promising results in its favour in the first phase Panchayat polls, the Odisha unit of BJP on Wednesday knocked the doors of the State Election Commission (here for exercising its ample constitutional power against the gross violation of model code of conduct by the ruling BJD.
BJP, in its memorandum, has pointed finger at the third floor of State Secretariat, the Chief Minister Office (CMO).
The saffron party alleges that BJD supremo as well as Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is grossly violating the model code of conduct as well as misusing power by having engaged his coterie of four bureaucrats in remote-controlling the ongoing three-tier Panchayat elections in Odisha in a bid to gain votes for the party by deploying the district level officials as party workers.
BJP in its complaint alleges that the Collectors and SPs along with the lower rung district level officials are being misused for tilting the poll results in favour of the ruling BJD by hook or by crook.
Raising such serious allegations, peeved BJP in its memorandum has urged the State Election Commission to put the call records of all the four bureaucrats of the CMO under scanner to ascertain the complaints against them.
BJP also complained against BJD MP and Odia cine star Anubhav Mohanty’s whirlwind electioneering tours using State-owned helicopter in blatant violation of model code of conduct and gross misuse of power.
On the other hand, BJD MLA Priyadarshi Mishra countered, “All allegations of BJP are baseless. Our party affairs are controlled from the Biju Janata Dal party headquarters not from the CMO. No officers are ever engaged in party works.”
BJD on the same day also knocked the doors of the State Election Commission and submitted memorandum against BJP.
On the memorandum submitted with the State Election Commission, BJD MLA Priyadarshi Mishra informed that entry of anti-social elements with huge amount of cash from neighbouring states of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand are being found for which the Election Commission should ensure free and fair polls in the border districts of Odisha.