Caterwaul over leadership change returns to Odisha Congress

Bhubaneswar: The ugly infighting in the Odisha unit of Congress, which stayed under the lid with the boisterousness of BJD and BJP dominating the news of late, resurfaced today clamouring over leadership change and splitting the members of the party into two camps. While one camp has been rooting for the incumbent Odisha Pradesh Congress […]

COngress Infighting

Bhubaneswar: The ugly infighting in the Odisha unit of Congress, which stayed under the lid with the boisterousness of BJD and BJP dominating the news of late, resurfaced today clamouring over leadership change and splitting the members of the party into two camps.

While one camp has been rooting for the incumbent Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Prasad Harichandan, the other team led by senior leader Niranjan Patnaik  vehemently seeks a change in leadership. Even though party leaders have been reprimanded and asked to show-cause over such comments on leadership change on grounds that it is the subject of the high command, voices within the party continue to rise against the current dispensation.