By D N Singh
Nothing can confound the confusion more created by the ragtag combos of leaders gearing up, time and again, to keep Naveen Patnaik out of power in 2019. After so many clarion calls by leaders like Damodar Rout, Baijayant Panda and so on , the most recent takeaway from the anti-Naveen clusters is the Odisha Ganatantrika Samukhya(OGS) spearheaded by former BJD leader Braja Kishore Tripathy and Kharavela Swain, who in the recent days was known as the head of Utkal Bharat . The duo with their glories sunken now suffocating in isolation.
What appears commonly lacking is a cohesively knitted strategy if they are really serious about their business to keep Naveen Patnaik on the tenterhooks of an uncertainty in 2019.
Be it Damodar Rout , Baijayant Panda, Braja Kishore Tripathy, Kharavela Swain, Panchanan Kanungo and last but not the least, the duo, Bijay Mohapatra and Dilip Ray, all of them may have a brand value but all of them seem nurturing bigger egos also. That may prove fatal for their unity and Naveen knows well what kind of catalyst is required to punch a hole in such a canvas .
For any political observer who heard the statements of Braja Kishore Trpathy and Kharavela Swain during and after the press meet, the entire gamut appear very wanting as regards the bellicosity required to fuel such an enthusiasm . Talking to a section of the media Swain was pathetically casual on the issue of who else are to join their bandwagon. He took many names with a reckless ease like’ talking to this and that’ bereft of any conviction or political certitude.
And the problem with such an initiatives is, few leaders with a make-believe narrative merely boosting the anti-incumbency to be the tool to inflict the BJD in particular. Which appears like row of empty stalls opened at an exhibition with only the salesman but no customer. There is no knowledge with any that if really they can work together against an overtly centralised BJD. What is more pertinent is who among them can enjoy the acceptability as the man-to-lead is a big question.
(Photo credit: Sanjib Mukherjee)
