Congress hopes to fish in troubled waters
KORAPUT: The BJD and the BJP having parted their ways, the Congress is hoping to take advantage of the situation in Koraput Notified Area Council (NAC) election due on September 19. If the Congress has its dream fulfilled it will be a sort of revenge the party was long waiting to take against the ruling party. In 2008 the party missed power by a whisker. It won seven out of 15 seats, but could not come to power. The BJD and the BJP were sailing in one boat then as alliance partners. The BJD had won five and BJP two seats respectively. It did not take much time for them to rope in the lone BSP candidate. The chairperson post reserved for ST woman, the BJP got its member in the seat as the BJD's ST woman had lost the election. The scenario has since changed a lot. The BJD, BJP are no more in alliance. And that the NAC has been expanded with 21 seats. The BJP this time has not been able to field its candidates in all the wards. All this has buoyed up the Congress hope to form the cou