First day of the Budget session of Assembly on Tuesday witnessed noisy scenes with Congress members staging a walkout after Speaker Surya Narayan Patro addressed the leader of BJP legislature party as Leader of the Opposition without formally announcing it.
Congress members also entered the well of the House shouting slogan ‘BJD-BJP bhai bhai’ questioning the justification behind according main opposition status to the saffron party after the regional outfit ‘gifted’ a Rajya Sabha seat to BJP.
The issue was raised after members including the Speaker, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, BJP legislature party leader Pradipta Naik and senior Congress leader Narasingh Mishra made obituary references to former members and martyrs of Pulwama who were from Odisha.