"What has been stated by Maharathy is an important issue,"

Singhdeo said, adding the House must be clarified about the alleged Maoist link of Mohapatra. Though Mohapatra had now been expelled from the BJD, he was elected to the Upper House of the Parliament as a BJD candidate. BJP backed Independent MLA Pratap Sarangi, however, pointed finger at the Chief Minister. "This is not only an MP or a minister, I doubt the Chief Minister's link with Maoists. This is because, top maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda's wife Mili Panda yesterday attended a function marking death anniversary of Naveen's mother Gyan Patnaik," Sarangi alleged. OJM leader Pyarimohan Mohapatra has claimed there was an attempt to arrest him on charge of maoist link after the police booked Dandapani and his son on similar ground. "The government will certainly fall, the day the police arrests me," Mohapatra had warned.