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The Speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly, Surama Padhi, connected Monday (September 22, 2025) rejected the notice for no-confidence question submitted by the Congress challenging the show of the Mohan Majhi-led BJP government.
The Speaker ruled that the question could not beryllium moved arsenic the Congress failed to spot it connected the time pursuing the filing of the notice. The Congress, however, alleged that the House was not successful bid and accused the Speaker of deliberately rejecting its notice.
Soon after, Congress members walked retired of the House and staged a dharna beneath the statue of Mahatma Gandhi wrong the Assembly premises. While immoderate leaders described the rejection arsenic the effect of an “unholy nexus” betwixt the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), others alleged that the authorities was avoiding debates connected captious issues.
Congress Legislature Party person Ramachandra Kadam said, “The rejection of our announcement was deliberate. We volition instrumentality this contented to the streets and explicate it to the public. Today’s objection is peaceful, and the adjacent people of enactment volition beryllium decided aft elaborate discussions with the enactment leadership.”
Congress MLA Sofia Firdous added, “There was thing incorrect with the no-confidence question notice. We had filled it strictly successful enactment with the prescribed procedures and formats. If they wanted to cull it intentionally, they could simply bash so.”
‘Joint conspiracy’
She further alleged, “There is nary notation successful the regularisation publication that the announcement tin beryllium rejected connected specified grounds. They took 3 days to fig retired a mode to disregard it. Both the BJP and the BJD person jointly conspired to thwart the Congress’s effort to determination the no-confidence motion.”
The Congress had moved the no-confidence question implicit issues specified arsenic women’s safety, workplace situation amid shortage of fertilizers and unemployment. The Congress had adjacent sought assistance of BJD successful cornering BJP done the motion. The determination party, however, remained non-committal.
Government lawman main whip and Boudh MLA Saroj Kumar Pradhan urged Congress members to instrumentality to the House.
The Mohan Majhi authorities saw nary existent menace from the no-confidence motion. In the 147-member House, the Congress has lone 14 MLAs and the enactment of 1 CPI(M) legislator. The BJD, which had won 51 seats successful the past Assembly election, is present reduced to 50 pursuing the decease of its Nuapada MLA. The BJP, however, remains comfortably placed with 78 members, backed by 3 independents.
