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A time aft the Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs urged Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to reconsider the threefold hike successful legislators’ salaries, the Biju Janata Dal legislators connected Friday (December 19, 2025) followed suit, appealing for a reappraisal of the proposal.
Several Bills proposing steep emergence successful salaries of CM, lawman CM, ministers, Leader of Opposition, Speaker and MLAs were passed successful wintertime league of Assembly that concluded earlier this month. The Bills are yet to go Act, pending the Governor’s assent.
“BJD President and Leader of Opposition Naveen Patnaik himself wrote to CM stating that helium would not judge the accrued wage requesting that the magnitude beryllium spent connected payment measures for the poor. Respecting nationalist sentiment, and arsenic per absorption of enactment supremo, the BJD MLAs person appealed CM to reconsider the wage hike decision,” said Pramila Mallick, BJD main whip, and Pratap Deb, BJD lawman main whip, astatine a property conference.
“The Bills connected enhancing the salaries of MLAs and the pensions of erstwhile MLAs, were unanimously passed connected December 9. The hike successful wage had, however, created monolithic nationalist resentment,” said Ms. Mallick.
When the Bills proposing a tripling of lawmakers’ salaries were tabled successful the 147-member Odisha Assembly, lone CPI(M) MLA Laxman Munda opposed the move. The Bills were different passed astir unanimously.
Had the Bills received the assent of Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati and travel into force, the Chief Minister would person drawn ₹3,74,000 per period portion his deputies would person received bundle of ₹3,68,000. Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of States would person earned ₹3,62,000 and ₹3,56,000 respectively.
Under the revised wage structure, an MLA volition would person drawn a consolidated bundle of ₹3,45,000 per period against ₹1.10 lakh per period successful 2017. Former MLAs’ pension would person changeable up to ₹1.20 lakh, much than three-fold hike compared to their contiguous pension.
This is seen arsenic a uncommon lawsuit of legislators being compelled to reconsider a wage hike successful the look of wide nationalist opposition.
