From Social Media: Suresh Pujari bats for Baijayant Panda

ONI Bureau: Senior BJP Leader Suresh Pujari has come out in support of suspended BJD MP Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, saying the latter was punished without a patient hearing.

“Allegations against Baijayant Panda, was of inadequate/deficient inner-party coordination.‬ Suspended for a serious allegation of anti-party activity, that too without being heard”, Suresh Pujari wrote on Facebook.

“This is just like making an silly allegation of theft of bread & the hanging him for murder, that too without trial & any one being killed”, he added.

‪”Apparently it seems, the action against Jay Panda was not a coincidence but is a deliberate attempt taken again him in a haste just to divert the attention & anger of the people of Odisha from the suicide of the innocent ‘Kunduli’ victim.‬ Jay Panda is just a scapegoat like many in the past”, he wrote.