The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has stepped up its attack on the Odisha government over seizure of over ₹300 crore of cash by the Income Tax department from campuses belonging to liquor manufacturers in the State.
The youth wing of the BJP burnt an effigy of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik blaming the government for patronising the liquor mafia here on Wednesday. In a series of agitations, the women’s wing of the party too had staged similar demonstrations in different parts of the State on Tuesday.
Congress Rajya Sabha member Dhiraj Sahu has been in the eye of the storm over the I-T department raid on premises linked to him in Jharkhand and Odisha where over ₹350 crore was found stashed.