10/06/2026
A strong message from Bhograi MLA Goutam Buddha Das.
Amid reports that over 22 lakh elderly, widows, and differently-abled persons have not received their monthly allowances for the past three months, the Biju Janata Dal Odisha legislator has urged Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to halt his own MLA allowance.
Calling it a matter of conscience, Das said he cannot accept his salary when vulnerable sections are struggling without support.
Raising concerns over the non-disbursal of monthly allowances to elderly persons in Odisha for the past three months, an Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) legislator has written to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, requesting that his own MLA allowance be withheld POLITICS