Odishatv Bureau
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly on Friday witnessed noisy scenes as Opposition Congress MLAs rushed to the well of the House demanding resignation of Higher Education Minister Badrinarayan Patra over frequent leakage of question papers.
 
Congress MLA S S Saluja along with party MLAs later staged a walk out of the assembly.
 
Demanding immediate statement from the minister Congress Chief Whip Prasad Harichandan said, "He should at least assure the House that the question paper leakage will not be repeated.”
 
Meanwhile, Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat asked the minister to give a statement in the House by Monday.
 
Due to leakage of the question paper the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) on Friday rescheduled the Chemistry examination to March 30. Earlier, the state government had announced March 25 as the date for re-examination of the Physics paper.
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