On Wednesday, the Odisha Assembly witnessed chaotic scenes as opposition Congress members objected to Minister of State for Home DS Mishra being allowed to make a statement on the state's law and order situation, despite the fact that he was an accused in the kidnap and murder of a woman school teacher in Kalahandi. Speaker S N Patro was persuaded by Congress MLAs to ask Parliamentary Affairs Minister B K Arukha, rather than Mishra, to give a remark on electoral violence and law and order. Patro, on the other hand, rejected the plan and let Mishra speak.

A group of enraged Congress MLAs stormed out of the House and staged a dharna before marching to the Raj Bhavan. Before a memorandum to Governor Ganeshi, the legislators stated that permitting a "tainted" minister to make a remark in the legislature was unacceptable in Parliamentary democracy.

After serving notice for a debate on the admissibility of an adjournment motion on poll violence and deteriorating peace and order, BJP chief whip Mohan Majhi led a walkout by party members, expressing discontent with the minister's response.

Narasingha Mishra also stated that the police investigated the murder of a lady teacher but did not look into suspicions of the minister's participation in the case.

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