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Bhubaneswar, Feb 9: As many as 10 former ministers and ex-MLAs are illegally occupying government quarters, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik informed the Assembly in a written reply Monday.
Replying to MLA Ayub Khan’s query, the CM said seven former ministers and three former MLAs have occupied government quarters in the capital city illegally. The CM added the government has taken action against them.
Former ministers Prafulla Chandra Ghadei, Sarada Prasad Nayak, Surendranath Nayak, Kalindi Behera, Sarojini Hembram, Bishnu Charan Das and Anjali Behera, and former MLAs Santosh Singh Saluja, Ananta Sethi and Anup Kumar Sai were the illegal occupants as named by the CM in his reply.
While cases against four of them are sub-judice in the High Court, cases under the Orissa Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act have been lodged against the others.