Bhubaneswar, Feb. 20 -- Congress MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati on Thursday made an explosive statement regarding KIIT University, claiming that several IAS and IPS officers' wives are employed at the institution.

He claimed that KIIT University's failure to handle the chain of events and protests following the death of an student from Nepal had left Odisha red-faced on the global stage.

Bahinipati, in this regard, also attacked the state government and questioned whether it had any political pressure to hide influential figures running the institute, reiterating that many spouses of many bureaucrats work at the university because of which the government had not arrested anyone in connection with the incident.

The MLA's claims stem from a ...