The Naveen Patnaik government on Tuesday came under sharp criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress over diarrhoeal deaths in Odisha’s Rayagada and Koraput districts.
The death toll in diarrhoea outbreak in Rayagada district alone had crossed 14 while the government continued to stick to the count of nine, alleged BJP Chief Whip Mohan Charan Majhi during ‘Zero’ hour in the State Assembly.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Tara Prasad Bahinipati put the figure in the Dasmantpur block of Koraput district alone at three, putting the total death toll in the State as touching 17.
