Nishikant Dubey’s CIA ‘hyperlink’ remarks on Biju Patnaik set off storm, BJD MP quits parliamentary panel | India Information
2 min learnBhubaneswarMar 30, 2026 05:55 AM IST
BJD Rajya Sabha member Sasmit Patra has resigned from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and IT headed by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, opposing the latter’s “disrespectful remarks” about former Odisha chief minister Biju Patnaik.
In a letter dated March 28 to the Rajya Sabha Chairman, Patra stated, “I can not, in good conscience, proceed to serve underneath somebody who makes disrespectful remarks about Late Shri. Biju Patnaik ji … in a public assertion.”
This got here a day after Dubey, chatting with reporters in New Delhialleged that former PM Jawaharlal Nehru fought the 1962 battle in opposition to China with American cash and in collaboration with CIA brokers and named Biju Patnaik, who was the then CM of Odisha, as a “hyperlink” between the US authorities, the CIA, and Nehru.
Dubey additionally alleged that Biju Patnaik, father of former CM and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik, was concerned in serving to CIA function U2 planes – a high-altitude reconnaissance plane – on the Charbatia air base in Odisha. He additionally alleged that the air base housed the US navy in India from 1963 to 1979.
Biju Patnaik served because the CM from June 1961 to October 1963 in his first stint.
Chatting with The Indian ExpressPatra stated Dubey’s remarks in opposition to Biju Patnaik had been “outrageous, false and irresponsible”.
“Biju Patnaik is a towering freedom fighter, visionary chief and son of the soil whose contribution to the nation is past query. Such makes an attempt to distort historical past and malign a revered chief for political narratives are unacceptable and condemnable,” stated Patra, who can be the BJD’s chief within the Rajya Sabha.
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