BHUBANESWAR: In a warning to party men washing dirty linen in public, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that they should maintain discipline. Naveen, however, asserted that there are no differences in the Biju Janata Dal (BJD).Talking to newsmen on Friday, he said statement given by former minister Debasis Nayak about lack of democracy in the party is baseless and false. Nayak had alleged large-scale corruption at all levels of the Government. Asked whether Nayak will attract disciplinary action, Naveen said he will look into the matter.Nayak is the third leader in the party who has spoken against the leadership after the ministerial reshuffle. Former agriculture minister Damodar Rout had questioned the reasons behind the dropping and inclusion of new ministers by Naveen. Rout had alleged that Rajya Sabha member Pyarimohan Mohapatra was the real power centre in the BJD and Naveen is only the executing authority.Former minister Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha had also expressed his unhappiness over the manner in which the reshuffle was effected. Bariha was dropped from the ministry. He, however, retracted his statement later.Infighting in the ruling party also came to the fore recently in Nayagarh district with party MP Rudra Madhav Ray and BJD MLA Kashinath Mallick lodging FIR and counter-FIR against each other at a police station.The Chief Minister had told media persons that he has looked into the allegations by Rout and there was nothing to talk about these charges. Though party circles were expecting disciplinary action against Rout, there has been no move in this regard.Now the statement by Nayak has ruffled feathers. Pressure is mounting on the leadership to take action against these leaders. Describing it as a conspiracy against the leadership, State convener of Biju Yuva Janata Dal (BYJD) Sanjay Dasburma has said that people will not tolerate these leaders who are trying to destabilise the BJD.
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