Nabarangpur: BASANT RATH.
Members of Nabarangpur
district BJD unit led by its President and Minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi, took
out a rally and burnt effigy of former MP Pradeep Majhi, here on Tuesday for his alleged connection in tainted Seashore company
demanded CBI to probe.
The Ponzi firm Seashore had transactions
worth of Rs. 1.64 crore with Bhagban Majhi, the father of former Congress MP Pradeep Majhi
and his younger brother in 2011. Besides
the bank statement shows transfer of huge sums of money into other accounts who
are close connections of Pradeep’s
family. While Bhagban is an ex-Rajya Sabha MP while his younger brother is a
block chairman in Jharigam block.
District BJD president and
Minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi, said Former MP Pradeep Majhi, directly involved
with Seashore Group one cannot get Rs. 35 lakh from maize farming. The people
who claimed to be the solider for Advasis have been exposed. The entire family members
are involved in the scam the CBI should bring them under its purview of
investigations.
Umerkote MLA Subash Gond,
said Former MP Pradeep has definitely a link if so much money can be made out
of maize farming he would have left everything and gone for maize farming. The
entire family should be brought under CBI scanner and probe the entire money transactions
Majhi added.
Sources said Pradeep’s
younger brother Prasanna Majhi had appointed as a commission agent for the
Seashore Promotional Company Pvt Ltd for procurement and supply of maize. Bank account details of Prasanna shows
transaction of Rs.1.62 crore with Seashore that undertaken after Rs.35 lakh was
transferred from the company to the account of Bhagban Majhi, his father. The CBI probing the multi-crore chit fund scam in
Odisha, the BJD demanded to include the
family members of former MP in the
probe. In the Rally and demonstration BJD district
General secretary Ashis Ranjan Patnaik,
ZP president Motiram Nayak, Mahila Zilla President Nibedita Mohanty,
district youth president Badri Narayan Singh, Secretary Rabi Patnaik, Tazuddin,
Prafula Nag, Pranab Bhunaia, all block chairman’s president’s with party
workers present .
