OSSC question paper leak: BJP seeks SIT probe, Congress wonders where is 5T  

The state units of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress party on Monday launched a fierce attack on the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) over the leak of the question paper of the recently-conducted Main Written Examination for JE (Civil). 

Alleging rampant corruption in the government recruitment process, the saffron party wished to know how question papers reached the arrested persons of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. 

“How did the question papers reach the middlemen of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh who had been active here?” asked state BJP spokesperson Anil Biswal. 

“The present chairman of the Odisha Staff Selection Commission is a former police DG. Doesn’t he know the modus operandi to be followed when a complaint is received? Is the racket being run by middlemen only? Is none of the OSSC involved in it?” he asked. 

“I want to say what role the Odisha government is playing in such scams. All these things are coming under the GA department. Its investigation should be conducted by the SIT. And the officers of the OSSC involved in the scam should be brought under the purview of investigation,” he demanded. 

Demanding action against those responsible, OPCC chief Sarat Pattanayak said there is 5T but no transparency. 

“Someone must be there. If none of the OSSC is involved, how the question papers are leaking? If it has been leaked, why the state government is not punishing the guilty ones? There is 5T here. So why these things are not being settled. There is no transparency anywhere except in words,” said Pattanayak. 

“The state government should stop playing with the future of poor students of the state,” he added. 

Taking the side of his government, BJD spokesperson Lenin Mohanty said, “Odisha unit of the BJP speaking on any issue including job scam is like a devil reciting Veda. In the states where the BJP is ruling, many such scams have been reported and nothing has so far been done. They are now politicising the issue when nine persons have already been arrested on the basis of the enquiry report of the government’s agency.