“If the senior leaders have anything negative to say, they should come to me with their complaints and not go to the media,” said Patnaik while replying to media queries on MP Bhartuhari Mahatab’s second column.
Mahatab, who had upset his party leaders through his column in a vernacular daily 5 days ago, once again through another article published in another Odia daily on Sunday, came down heavily on some party leaders like Damodar Rout and Surjya Narayan Patro. Besides, he blamed news channels for amplifying his first article.