Bhubaneswar, Aug. 22 -- By Ashutosh Mishra
Bhubaneswar: The recent appointment of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leaders to various boards and corporations has triggered a debate about chief minister, Naveen Patnaik using political patronage to rehabilitate leaders who were either denied party tickets in the last elections or had been working in various organisational capacities in the hope of rewards. Some like Pushpendra Singh Deo had been defeated in the last elections.
The opposition charge is that Patnaik has resorted to this exercise to appease disgruntled leaders so that he does not have to face dissidence in future. After all the party cannot give tickets to everyone and there are bound to be murmurs of discontent everytime an election arr...