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Bhubaneswar, Dec 02: After sacking the Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi from the BJD for “anti-people activity”, the party has justified its decision.
When the COVID-19 situation was grave in Ganjam and lives were at risk, Panigrahi was flying in chartered planes and enjoying luxurious accommodation in cities like Mumbai and Pune.
He was cheating the people of his constituency, taking bribes promising unemployed youth of jobs through Akash Kumar Pathak, an accused who was arrested along with his father, IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak.
Both have been arrested on charges of accumulating properties disproportionate to their known sources of income, the party stated. Panigrahi along with Pathaks…
