NaveenPatnaik: TMC not in contact with us

Bhubaneswar, Feb 5 Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday said the CBI ought to do non-political jobs and that no one from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) had addressed him on any issue, including the ongoing standoff between the focal test office and the Kolkata Police.

"Nobody from the TMC has been in touch with us for somewhere around a year," Patnaik stated, answering to reporters' questions amid his tour to Koraput on whether TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee had addressed him on the Kolkata Police-CBI standoff.

Prior in the day, Banerjee reportedly said in Kolkata that she would counsel Patnaik over the continuation of her dharna. The West Bengal chief minister has been staging a protest over the CBI-Kolkata police imbroglio in Kolkata since Sunday night.

"Our party's statement on Monday had to do with occasions in our own state," Patnaik told reporters.

The BJD had cleared up that its announcement on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was in connection to Odisha and the general issues going up against the test organization at the national dimension and ought not be used to club it with any political party or grouping.

The announcement had said the "institutional integrity of the CBI must be reestablished. We are a develop majority rules system and polished methodology ought to be kept up" and brought up that there was "sudden activity" by the examining organization just before the panchayat polls in the past.

"Presently, before the general decision, the move by the CBI bears a resemblance to amateurish direct and is shaded with political thought processes," it had included.

The statement apparently referred to the CBI's ongoing notification to two BJD MLAs and previous clergymen regarding a chit subsidize case. Both the MLAs have said they will react to the probe agency's notice.

Asked to comment on the exercises from the CBI, which host been condemned by numerous resistance gatherings including the BJD, Patnaik stated, "We, similar to every other person, might want to see the CBI complete an expert and non-political job."

On the Supreme Court's order on the Kolkata Police-CBI standoff, he stated, "We will follow the Supreme Court judgement."

To a question on whether the CBI had issued a notice to him, Patnaik shot back, saying, "Absolutely nonsense."

Prior, Odisha BJP leader K V Singhdeo had looked for an elucidation from Patnaik on whether the focal test office had issued notice to him in connection with the chit fund scam.

The BJP leader had said he had looked for the chief minister's clarification on the basis of media reports.