US EditionUnder Mounting Public Criticism, Odisha BJP MLAs Urge CM to Reconsider Their Salary Hike
BJP MLAs in Odisha seek to reopen debate on the over 200% salary and pension hike amid public backlash and criticism from party leadership and opposition.
- On Thursday, Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs urged Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to reconsider the pay decision and schedule a fresh debate after a meeting at the BJP office attended by Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida.
- Amid widespread public anger, party members said massive public resentment over the proposed 200% salary hike and Former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's refusal intensified scrutiny from public critics and civil society organisations and Left parties.
- Under the bills, an MLA would receive a consolidated package of ₹3,45,000 per month, and former MLAs would get above ₹1.20 lakh as pension, a more-than three-fold hike.
- Political observers note the impact on the government's image as the salary revision dented the 18-month-old Mohan Majhi government and unsettled BJP central leadership over Odisha legislators' pay.
- The bills now await the governor's assent and only CPI MLA Laxman Munda opposed the measure, with Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati's decision pending after the winter session of Odisha Legislative Assembly.
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Under mounting public criticism, Odisha BJP MLAs urge CM to reconsider their salary hike
The proposed hike of over 200% would place Odisha’s legislators ahead of their counterparts in all other States, a message that reportedly did not go down well with the BJP’s central leadership.
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After BJP MLAs, opposition BJD urges Odisha CM to reconsider proposed salary hike for lawmakers - OrissaPOST
Bhubaneswar: The Opposition BJD Friday urged Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to reconsider the proposed hike in salaries and allowances of lawmakers in the assembly, a day after ruling BJP MLAs made a similar request to the leader of the House. The Odisha Assembly, on the concluding day of its Winter Session December 9, passed four Bills that proposed to increase by three times the salaries of MLAs, the chief minister, ministers, the Sp…
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