Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Srikant Jena on Sunday slammed the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for trying to take mileage out of inauguration of the Veer Surendra Sai Airport at Jharsuguda and laying of foundation-stone for renovation the fertiliser plant at Talcher.

“The present NDA Government has not given a single project to Odisha during the last four and a half years. While a decision had already been taken and technical process initiated in 2008 for renovation of the Talcher fertilser project, the airport at Jharsuguda was a brainchild of the UPA Government,” said Jena at a Press conference here.

Jena also alleged that the NDA Government has delayed in taking up the Talcher fertiliser project and completing the airport at Jharsuguda.

He said the Odisha Government knows it all which Central Government initiated these two projects.

He also wanted to know why the MCL Medical College, which started during the UPA Government, has not yet been inaugurated and why the ESI Hospital, for which land had been identified and a boundary wall constructed, during the previous Government was withdrawn.

Jena alleged that the BJP and the BJD have secret understanding, and they are working to protect their individual party interests only.

“Be it the Paradip Refinery or the Jharsuguda airport or any other Central projects that have come up in Odisha, they all were approved and initiated during the UPA Government.

The BJP Government at the Centre and the BJD Government in the State have merely become publicity-oriented,” alleged Jena.

PCC election campaign committee chairman Bhaktra Charan Das was present.