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’18 lakh vulnerable pensioners left in the lurch’: Naveen slams Odisha govt for three-month delay in pension

Stepping up his attack on the BJP-led Odisha government, Leader of the Opposition and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik on Friday accused it of failing the state's most vulnerable citizens over the non-disbursal of social security pensions to nearly 18 lakh beneficiaries for the last three months, and urged Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to ensure immediate release of the pending payments.

‘This is racial profiling’

TMC’s Rajya Sabha member Sushmita Dev gets agitated at the mention of prosecution of Bengali-speaking migrant workers and the introduction of Special Intensive Review (SIR) by the Centre ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls.