Overview

• Speaker Surama Padhy suspended proceedings until 4 pm after BJD MLAs entered the well with placards and shouted anti-BJP slogans.
• Question Hour ran for about ten minutes as ministers answered limited queries despite persistent disruptions.
• Thousands of BJD supporters advanced from Mahatma Gandhi Marg, broke two barricades near the Assembly, and were halted at a third.
• Police used water cannon and detained several participants during the party’s ‘Vidhan Sabha Ghearo’ outside the legislature.
• The dispute centers on a cabinet decision raising BDO and engineer sanction limits, including permission to pass bills up to Rs 10 lakh without countersignature, which BJD and Congress say weakens PRI oversight while Congress accuses BJD of shielding the BJP by stalling the House.