Brahmagiri MLA Upasna Mohapatra on Monday intensified the political heat in Odisha by launching a scathing attack on the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), using the metaphor of Mahatma Gandhi’s “three monkeys” to describe the party’s current state.Referring to a growing list of resignations, suspensions and expulsions within the BJD, Mohapatra alleged that the party is rapidly losing its leadership strength, with several prominent leaders defecting to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). If the current trend continues, she remarked, only “three monkeys” would be left in the BJD — one being the party supremo, one leader from Tamil Nadu, and another from coastal Odisha.
