Times of India reported that the Odisha Congress unit on Sunday accused chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik of misleading people in the controversy surrounding the CAG's report on coal block allocation and adopting a double standard.

Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee president Mr Niranjan Patnaik said “Naveen is telling lie in coal block allocation matter. His government was opposing the auction based coal block allocation and recommended to the Centre for allotment of 32 coal blocks to 56 private companies. All these recommendations for private companies including 11 from outside the state were done prior to 2009.”

Mr Naveen in a statement earlier this week had clarified that his government had been pressing for auction based allocation of all mineral resources.

Source - Times of India

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