Bhubaneswar, March 11 -- Months after the Odisha Congress staged a mock marriage of the BJD and the BJP in the State Capital as a symbolic display of tacit understanding between the two parties, it once again resorted to a similar gesture by organising an 'Annaprashana" ceremony of the ten children borne out of the marital alliance. The event is scheduled to take place at Congress Bhawan here today.

As per official sources, the marriage between the two opposing parties had taken place to make official their close ties. Now the Congress went ahead and made another satirical move by organising annaprashanam - a Hindu rite of passage marking an infant's first intake of food other than milk - for the ten children borne out of their alliance ...