RDA chief removed, UD Minister takes charge

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Rourkela: With the removal of senior BJD leader and first chairman of Rourkela Development Authority (RDA) Dayanidhi Kisan from his post recently, Urban Development Minister Raghunath Mohanty has temporarily assumed the charge of the office.

However, Sundargarh Collector Roopa Roshan Sahoo will continue as the vice-chairman of RDA.

While the reason for Kisan’s removal by the party high command has not been made public, political analysts however, feel that it is a fallout of the ongoing tussle between Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and expelled BJD member and OJM chairman Pyarimohan Mohapatra.

It may be mentioned that Kisan was appointed as the first chairman of RDA in 2010 following the decision of the party high command to appoint senior party leaders as head of corporations and semi-government bodies.

Sources in the BJD said that Kisan had managed to get the coveted post by the influence of the then Minister and Rourkela MLA Sarada Nayak, known as a staunch supporter of Pyari.

Following an attempted coup by Pyari and his supporters against the party high command and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on May 29 last year, the party top brass has put all the associates of Pyari including the Rourkela MLA under the scanner.

Considering that Kisan, the former Bonai MLA, is a close associate of Sarada Nayak, the party high command might have decided to remove him from his post, political analysts said. Furthermore, he had also been under scanner because during his time not a single project was launched though demand for plot/houses witnessed an upward swing in the Steel City.

Though a letter to this effect is not available at the RDA office here, sources said that it has been dispatched from the Housing and Urban Development Department with verbal communication to ADM, Rourkela who is also the Secretary of RDA.

With this said development, it is assumed that more close aides of Sarada Nayak including some party functionaries of the Sundargarh District Unit will get the axe.

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