Union ministers Ram Kripal Yadav and Dharmendra Pradhan Thursday hit out at the BJD government in Odisha accusing it of neglecting the people belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
Addressing a party meeting for the OBCs at Kantabanji in the state's Balangir district, the two senior BJP leaders alleged that the Naveen Patnaik government has failed on all fronts in the last 19 years and was insensitive to the problems of the backward classes.
"The BJD government has failed miserably to address the problems of people from backward classes. It is only the BJP which is sincerely working for the uplift of these people," Yadav, the minister of state for rural development, said
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