That the BJD does not want me anymore, and in fact wants me out, is now irrefutably clear. I was heartbroken when several BJD colleagues conveyed that they had been restrained from coming by to pay their last respects to the departed soul. In stark contrast, thousands of well wishers came to pay last respects, including senior leaders of all other political parties.
It is with deep anguish, hurt and sorrow that I have decided to quit the kind of politics into which our BJD has descended.Īlthough things have been going from bad to worse for the past four years, it has plumbed the absolute depths of inhumanity when neither you nor anyone from the BJD turned up to pay their last respects to my father Dr Bansidhar Panda, who as everyone knows was a very close friend, supporter, and associate of Biju uncle for many decades. Ban on RO systems to continue in Delhi, Supreme Court declines to stay NGT order