BDO lodges police complaint against Cong MLA

A Block Development Officer (BDO) in Odisha's Sundergarh district today lodged a police complaint against a Congress MLA, accusing him of "abusing and threatening" him.
The FIR was lodged at Lefripara police station.
However, the Sundergarh MLA, Jogeshwar Singh, denied the charges brought against him by Tangarpalli Tehsildar Soumendra K Das.
The BDO alleged that Singh "misbehaved" with him and "threatened" him with dire consequences over phone. The incident occurred around 7 pm yesterday.
"I received a phone call from the MLA who abused me in a foul language and also threatened me with life," the BDO stated in the FIR, adding that the MLA "forced him to favour" Congress workers in the Gopabandhu Grameen Yojana works.

"I expressed my inability and politely told him that it was not possible, but he did not listen to me and continued to abuse me," he said.

The BDO said he had informed the District Collector and SP about the incident, adding that the OAS Association had taken up the issue.
"The office-bearers of my association would meet the chief minister soon, possibly today, in this regard and would apprise him of this," said Das.
When contacted, the MLA said, "I have never misbehaved with the BDO or threatened him. He has been trying to malign me by taking my name in a fake case".