Baijayant slams party colleague Nishikant Dubey’s remark on Biju Patnaik

NEW DELHI: The governmental enactment sparked by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s allegedly derogatory comments connected ex-Odisha CM Biju Patnaik flared up connected Monday arsenic his ain enactment workfellow Baijayant Jay Panda slammed the remarks arsenic “unworthy, uninformed and wholly unacceptable”.Panda said, “Biju uncle was a towering personality... He was 1 of the top patriots of modern Bharat. Casting aspersions connected his patriotism is fantastical and patently ludicrous.”In a station connected X, Dubey had called Biju a “link” betwixt Jawaharlal Nehru and the US and its spy agency, the CIA, which, helium alleged, utilized to money Congress. Though the station was a portion of a bid of regular attacks helium launches connected the Nehru-Gandhi family, his notation to the Odia neta successful the discourse of illicit canvass backing was seen by BJD arsenic an insinuation that Patnaik worked arsenic a CIA agent.In Bhubaneswar, BJD laminitis and erstwhile Odisha CM, Naveen Patnaik, the lad of Biju Patnaik, said Dubey needs a “mental doctor’s attention”.Slamming Dubey, Naveen said, “I don’t deliberation helium knows Nehru had fixed Biju an bureau adjacent to his successful Delhi portion helium was inactive Odisha CM to assistance with strategy during the Chinese struggle and combat the Chinese.”In Rajya Sabha, BJD staged a walkout aft its member, Sasmit Patra, lodged a “protest against the disparaging, mendacious and concocted statements made by Dubey against Biju”.Dubey aboriginal sought to bring down the governmental somesthesia by lauding Biju arsenic a starring state combatant whom BJP has ever respected, and claimed helium had levelled nary allegation against him.