Bhubaneswar, Nov. 28 -- A sudden burst of Bengali phrases created an unexpected uproar in the Odisha Legislative Assembly on Friday during the Question Hour session on school dropout rates.

The discussion pertaining to the School and Mass Education (S&ME) department turned tense when BJD MLA Ranendra Pratap Swain, while raising his concerns on dropout statistics, remarked, "Hisab kitab thik achhe, chele dubchhe kena?" (The calculations seem correct, so why is the number of students going down?)

As the House grew alert, BJP MLA Siddhant Mohapatra followed with another question but quickly shifted his attention towards Ranendra aka Raja Swain. In a sharp, Bengali-tinged retort, Siddhant said, "Tomar kachhe chele chhilo, amar kachhe chele ...