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BJD MP slaps new party member in public, apologises after Naveen Patnaik’s rebuke

Former Union minister and current Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Chandra Shekhar Sahu stoked a controversy on Wednesday after a video clip of him slapping a former Congress worker went viral on social media.
Sahu, who was a Union minister in the first term of Manmohan Singh government, was seen slapping Sangram Sahu, a former Youth Congress president of Odisha’s Gajapati district during his induction into the BJD at a ceremony in Paralakhemundi town on Tuesday.

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Around 1,000 leaders and workers from Congress and BJP had joined the BJD at an executive committee meeting when Sahu slapped the former Youth Congress worker.
The MP was apparently livid over the youth Congress worker brushing aside the scarf that was put on his shoulder by party observor Purna Chandra Swain.
As the video clip went viral, BJP leader Bhrigu Buxipatra said the BJD MP’s conduct was shameful.

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