Bhubaneswar, April 8 -- Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government which has been facing the heat of the Opposition over Kotia border dispute has once again found itself in the eye of storm after the Andhra Pradesh government managed to successfully conduct the Mandal Parishad and Zilla Parishad polls in the region today despite protests from its Odisha counterpart.

Though the Odisha Government filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court opposing the polls in the disputed Kotia region, it could not stop the Andhra government from holding the election.

Condemning the failure of the Odisha government to stop the election, PCC president Niranjan Patnaik said, "It clearly indicates that the BJD government even does not have the willingness to safeg...