BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa in-charge of the Congress, Jagdish Tytler, posed six more questions to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday. The first question Tytler asked Naveen was why the latter had not replied to any of his 14 questions put to him earlier.In the second query, the Congress leader was back to the issue of corruption again and asked, “Is it not true that there are 1,797 pending cases on fund misappropriation, losses and defalcations against the government?”Tytler alleged in his third question that the State Government had failed to address land related issues across the State. “Is it not true that the government is incapable of handling land in the matter of lease, alienation and encroachment as they do not have any database of land record,” he asked. The fourth query: Is it not true that government land measuring 106.438 acres is occupied unauthorisedly by industrial houses?The fifth query: “The Centre had announced national afforestation and eco-development programme for promoting afforestation, tree plantation, ecological restoration and eco-development activities in the State with a fund of ` 100 crore but ` 83.03 crore remained unspent. Isn’t it the inefficiency and irregularities of Naveen government?”The Congress leader alleged that the State Government was supplying kesari dal instead of arhar dal at` 75 a kg to the poor, pregnant women and schoolchildren under the special nutrition programme (SNP) and the mid-day meal scheme respectively. The sixth question dealt with the above issue as to why is the government playing such a heinous game with pregnant women and under-nourished children by supplying them with the dal which causes paralysis of lower limbs.Stating that the funds provided by the Centre are also of the people, Tytler said Naveen had a moral responsibility to reply to the questions.Naveen is yet to react to the earlier 14 questions put to him by Tytler. Every time a volley of questions were thrown at Naveen, he delegated a minister with the responsibility to ask questions in return.Last time, three BJD leaders, Minister for Steel and Mines Raghunath Mohanty, party general secretary Nagendra Pradhan and State convenor of the Biju Yuva Janata Dal Sanjay Dasburma had asked six questions to Tytler in reply to his seven queries. However, Tytler said the Chief Minister cannot continue to avoid questions. The Naveen Government will have to reply to the people of Orissa one day, he said.
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