Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has filed wrong election affidavit: Dharmendra Pradhan

Mar 28, 2019

Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Mar 28 (ANI): Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday claimed that Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has filed wrong election affidavit as he didn’t mention about the Coal block allocation case in it. Minister Pradhan said, “Naveen babu has filed a wrong election affidavit, that's what we have come to know. A CBI case was going on against him, the CBI had sent notice to him and despite knowing everything he didn’t put this information in the affidavit. When he was Coal Minister in 1998 he allotted coal block to a ghost company was formed in the year 1999. Naveen babu must answer to the Odiya people how he is connected to the company and why he didn't give information about it in the affidavit that CBI questioned you.”