Bhubaneswar, April 21 -- By Ashutosh Mishra
Bhubaneswar: In the cacophonous campaign of political parties marked by mutual recrimination environmental issues often get lost during the elections. It is no different this time. Hardly any party is raising any environment-related issue of consequence.
Interestingly, a few days ago chief minister, Naveen Patnaik sought to bring Chilika, Asia's largest brackish water lake straddling three Odisha districts, into the election discourse. He accused the BJP-led NDA government of conspiring to sell off the lake, a Ramsar site, in an apparent reference to the Centre's plan to set up a water aerodrome in Chilika which sustains a bewildering variety of aquatic like and is home to the state's largest bi...