The words like Corona Virus-19 almost began the year 2020 and it was just nightmarish that still continues. And for the ones in the administration the challenge was and is, enormous as it was equally frightening for the people.   

Nearly eight months have been consumed by the disease forcing in a scary transition that still lingers. And nobody knows how long it will haunt the people post the resurfacing of the new strain in UK. 

But, all through the battle against the virus, Odisha has remained in the lead as regards gearing up against it through steps those were pioneering. Be it lockdowns and other such measures against Covid, Odisha was in an advantageous situation.

Governance On Back-Foot   

Governance obviously suffered a low, in pace, as a lot of energy had to be invested to keep the spread of the pandemic under control and the results in Odisha proved to be more encouraging than in many other states of the country.

In the climate of fear, politics took the back seat and whatever surfaced to become contentious, those were handled by the government ably despite the colossal ignorance at the medical front.

Politics Lazying 

However, fairly recently the chatters in the political grapevine went a notch higher when the tragic incident of Paree’s killing in Nayagarh district got the centre stage and a minister from the Odisha cabinet was mired in the whole thing, which ultimately subsided when the SIT nabbed the so-called real culprit thus absolving the minister, in question, of any alleged involvement whatsoever.

But the opposition has not stopped at that, citing less plausible reasons to be content with the SIT probe. So the amber of the protest from the opposition camp, over security for women & children in Odisha, still smolders.

Meanwhile, the main opposition, the BJP, took a pot-shot at the BJD on the women security issue describing the failures at protecting women as very dystopian in essence. 

Simultaneously, politics appeared riveting for a while when the issue over the alleged corruption by a senior forest officer, Abhay Pathak and his son Akash Pathak, cropped up from the hibernation of filth in which a former minister of the BJD and a sitting MLA, Pradeep Panigarhi, was found embroiled in the rot.

The chief minister, adhering to an overriding obligation to ensure that his government’s image is unwaveringly protected, he expelled the legislator Panigrahi from the party and now,  along with the Pathaks, he now cools his heels in the jail.

In nutshell, politics, which is intricately linked to governance, somehow, suffered a bit due to the pandemic which has yet again shown the signs of fresh strains in the UK and its aftereffect in India is never ruled out in a circumstance, of very less know-how as how to mitigate its menace.

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