These former Odisha MLAs yet to vacate government quarters

Bhubaneswar: Taking action against former MLAs for occupying the government quarters, Odisha Assembly Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro directed them to vacate those at the earliest.

Total of 21 former legislators and ministers asked to leave their government quarters in Bhubaneswar failing which electricity connection and water supply will be disconnected, sources said.

Here’s the list of ex-MLAs and ministers occupying government quarters:

1. Basant Kumar Panda
2. Late Bed Prakash Agarwalla
3. Bhujabal Majhi
4. Bibhuti Bhushan Harichandan
5. Bijayashree Routray
6. Damodar Rout
7. Debasish Nayak
8. Dhaneswar Majhi
9. Golak Bihari Naik
10. Jugal Kishore Pattnaik
11. Kishore Chandra Tarai
12. Mahesh Sahoo
13. Nandini Devi
14. Nitesh Gangadeb
15. Pravat Kumar Tripathy
16. Praveen Chandra Bhanjadeo
17. Pushpendra Singhdeo
18. Rabi Narayan Naik
19. Ramesh Chandra Majhi
20. Sananda Marndi
21. Sanjay Das Burma

Meanwhile, action has been taken against ex-MLAs Bhujabal Majhi and Rabi Narayan Naik by cancelling allotment for occupying more than one government quarters.

Earlier, two former MLAs — Pramila Giri and Anjali Behera — have been evicted from the government quarters in 2011 and 2016 respectively.