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Bhubaneswar, May 5: A day after the Opposition parties fired a barrage of accusation at the state government, the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Thursday came up with a clarification regarding the transfer of Rs 8 crore to its account.
“The `8 crore, which the Opposition has alleged to have been transferred to our party’s account by an accused in the chit fund scam, was actually transferred by General Electoral Trust April 9, 2013,” said BJD general secretary and law minister Arun Kumar Sahoo to reporters. Congress leader Narasingha Mishra, the leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the state Assembly, had raised the issue vigorously in the House Tuesday, asking if the SBI account number –10091755246 – stands in the name of BJD and if Purna Chandra Padhi, father of chit fund accused Srikrushna Padhi, was depositing lakhs of rupees to this account. These allegations had prompted Sahoo to dub Mishra as “senile” in the House.
After the Assembly was adjourned Thursday due to the continuing din, Sahoo said the `8 crore was part of Rs 13 crore that BJD had received from the trust between 2011 and 2014. He also placed an HDFC bank cheque of Rs 8 crore, though which he said the fund was transferred to the SBI account of the ruling party. Continued on P4
