Jagi Mangat Panda, MD of Odisha's No 1 TV news channel and wife of Naveen Patnaik's bete noire Jay Panda, alleges that 20 false cases have been registered against OTV channel.
Panda, a four-time member of Parliament, was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kendrapara constituency of Odisha in 2014. He was suspended from the BJD for "anti-party activities" on January 24, 2018.
Behind Naveen’s soft exterior lies a shrewd, clinical politician who is not necessarily nice. So the outrage over Iyer-Mitra’s detention should be directed against Naveen.
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra had allegedly made derogatory remarks against Odisha’s Konark temple during a recent trip to the state in the company of Baijayant Jay Panda, former MP of the ruling BJD.