Summary:
By D N Singh & Satish Samanta
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Ahead of the panchayat poll ruling party is gearing up speedily to reach its vote bank with attractive schemes.
Following which a spree of popular schemes is thrown to the public to show its pro-people governance.
It happens in politics and everywhere. In Odisha of course the scene is bit different and ahead of the time.
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik undertook such as exercise quite in advance.
Leaving the two opposition parties, the Congress and the BJP sulking in their own hives.
Be it post Covid financial succor in the shape of Rs 1000 stimulus for its requirements, or packages of Rs 3000 for pavement vendors or interim assistance for PMRY workers or in Biju Pucca Ghar Yojna, cannot be wished away as mere freebies although technically they are.
For which the party in power draws criticism those ring dubbed as cheap stunts for votes.