Bhubaneswar: Rajya Sabha MP Sasmit Patra today lashed out at the BJP over the Orissa High Court bench in western Odisha matter. Speaking to media persons outside the Parliament in Delhi, Patra said that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has committed all support to the Centre for this purpose.
“Several times before and again on 5th September 2018, our Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has given total commitment to the Centre to provide all adequate resources including infrastructural and financial resources for setting up of the western Odisha High Court bench,” he said.
“Despite the CM’s blank cheque for all works in this regard, why the Centre is not proceeding to name the location in consultation with Orissa High Court is surprising,” the BJD MP added.
The Centre can establish the western Odisha High Court Bench through the Indian Parliament by exercising its powers under Entry-78 of the Union List in Indian Constitution. Patra blamed the BJP for politicising this issue during elections and leaders of the saffron party are ‘misleading people in this sensitive matter’.
“The BJP should ask its Party in power in Centre to establish the western Odisha High Court Bench using the powers under Entry-78 of the Union List through the Indian Parliament. Who is stopping them,” Patra questioned.
