With five days left for the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election, and the second for Odisha, Home Minister Amit Shah, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, and Congress Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi hit the campaign trail canvassing support for their respective parties.
While Mr. Shah came down heavily on Odisha CM for promoting non-Odia in running the government, Mr. Gandhi repeated his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for patronising a select group of industrialists.
At a public meeting under Aska Lok Sabha constituency in Ganjam district, the Home Minister said, “people elected Mr. Patnaik to govern the State, but a group of bureaucrats are running it instead. If the Odisha CM had to hand over the government to a bureaucrat, it should have been an Odia bureaucrat, not an outsider.”
