Demand for resignation over POSCO unjustified: Patnaik

Reacting to the furore by the opposition in the state legislature at Bhubaneswar on Tuesday, Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik said that the demand for his resignation by the opposition parties over giving land to the steel maker POSCO is illogical and without any justification. The opposition in Orissa has been disrupting the ongoing winter session in the state assembly, alleging Patnaik had manipulated and bent the rules for giving the land to steel maker POSCO's proposed plant in the state. Meanwhile, Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee President K P Singh Deo said that the Patnaik government has been the only government, which has been legally malafide in its deeds.