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CM Naveen Patnaik sets example while his cabinet minister seeks to dilute move

As the drive to enforce the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act, 2019 by Odisha Government had started having an impact on traffic violators, a move seems to be underway to dilute the entire exercise. Appallingly, it is being led by a senior minister in the Naveen Patnaik Cabinet even as the Chief Minister himself, who prefers a front seat ride in his car, has sought to set an example by putting on the seat belt.
On Friday, State Rural Development Minister Sushant Singh came out openly in support of the violators with a bizarre argument that the enforcement of traffic violation and road safety rules was discriminatory and was creating a division between the “poor and rich”.

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