DECIMATION OF CONGRESS IN ODISHA

BIKASH CHOUDHURY

Congress Party in Odisha would be wiped out in the 2014 election next month and could even disintegrate after the election is over. The Jena duo running the affairs of the state have already driven out the leader of the opposition and many senior leaders from the party recently and party workers are now being forced to desert the party in droves to keep their bread and butter while adjusting their sail to the powerful wind blowing against the Congress Party  due to the anger and frustration of people on price rise and monumental corruption in last five years and on top of it the Central gross neglect to Odisha at the time of distress has terribly angered and hurt the sentiment of people. Further, the machination of Jena that prevented Biju Patnaik from becoming Prime Minister of India has not been completely forgotten. The powerful Patnaik faction of former Chief Minister after being completely sidelined in the party affairs in the state are keenly watching and patiently waiting for their pound of the flesh after the election. If they were not reinstated in the driving seat of the party after the election they are likely to split the party in the middle and could float a Regional Congress Party in Odisha. Be that as it may, the decimation of Congress Party in Odisha is matter of months if not in days.