Complaint filed against Naveen Patnaik

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BHUBANESWAR: The alleged horsetrading during last year's Rajya Sabha elections has come back to haunt the top BJD leaders.A co..

BHUBANESWAR: The alleged horsetrading during last year's Rajya Sabha elections has come back to haunt the top BJD leaders.A complaint has been filed against Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and others for their 'tacit involvement' in the purchase of Opposition MLAs. It was filed by State convener of the Jana Andolana Samanyaya Samiti Debi Prusty at the capital police station here on Friday. Others named in the complaint include BJD strategist and Rajya Sabha member Pyarimohan Mohapatra, Minister of State for Energy Atanu Sabysachi Nayak, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Pushpendra Singhdeo and Shibaji Majhi, one of the two Congress MLAs who had remained absent during the voting.
The police, however, are yet to register a case in this connection. The contents of the complaint are being examined, police sources said.Quoting from several newspaper reports, Prusty said it was obvious that BJD successfully indulged in horsetrading as all the three candidates of the party won without having the numbers.

The complaint refers to the audio tape where it became evident that two ministers of State, Nayak and Singhdeo, were involved in the purchase of Lanjigarh MLA Majhi, who abstained from voting. Prusty has said in the complaint that following the appearance of the audio tapes and facts in the public domain in the second week of June 2011, the Congress has suspended Majhi for 'misconduct.'

Prusty demanded that an FIR under Section 7 and 12 of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988/read with Section 123 of Representation of People Act and 120B IPC should be registered against them.