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Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik on Monday (March 30, 2026) said BJP MP Nishikant Dubey needs to consult a doc for making “outrageous” remarks against state combatant and erstwhile Odisha Chief Minister Biju Patnaik.
Mr. Dubey, successful a connection connected March 27, had claimed that Biju Patnaik was the “link” betwixt erstwhile Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and U.S. overseas quality service CIA during the warfare against China successful the 1960s.
“I americium amazed to find the outrageous things that Mr. Nishikant Dubey said about Biju Babu. I bash not deliberation that Jawaharlal Nehru had enactment an bureau adjacent to his successful Delhi while Biju Babu was inactive the Chief Minister of Odisha to program tactics and combat the Chinese,” Mr. Patnaik told reporters extracurricular the State Assembly in Bhubaneswar.
Recalling his puerility memories from the 1962 Indo-China war, Mr. Patnaik said that arsenic a 13-year-old helium remembered his begetter being furious astir the Chinese attack. Condemning Mr. Dubey’s remarks, the BJD chief added, “I deliberation the BJP MP needs immoderate intelligence doctor’s attraction for saying these outrageous things.”
The BJD also staged a walkout successful the Rajya Sabha successful protest. BJD floor leader Sasmit Patra rose to talk soon aft the league convened for the day. “The BJD does not disturb the House. But contiguous we privation to spot connected grounds our superior protestation against the disparaging, mendacious and concocted statements made by MP Nishikant Dubey against Biju Patnaik. He called Biju Patnaik a CIA agent. This is the grade to which the ruling enactment has fallen. This is shameful,” he said.
Backpedalling on his remarks, Mr. Dubey posted connected X that helium had been seeking to exposure the “misdeeds of the Congress” and not Biju Patnaik. “When the Congress did injustice to Biju Babu, it was the Jan Sangh and the BJP which stood by him. Tell me, which allegation did I level against Biju Babu in my tweet? If anyone is wounded by what I person written, past I tin lone effort to marque them understand,” helium wrote.
Attempting to incorporate the controversy, BJP leader Baijayant Panda weighed in, calling Biju Patnaik “one of the top patriots of modern Bharat”. He added, “Casting aspersions connected his patriotism is fantastical and patently ludicrous. Such attacks connected him are unworthy, uninformed, and wholly unacceptable.”
