"Biju Patnaik not getting Bharat Ratna is very painful...they don't have any issue": VK Pandian responds to BJP's 'Odia asmita' jibes at BJD

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"Biju Patnaik not getting Bharat Ratna is very painful...they don't have any issue": VK Pandian responds to BJP's 'Odia asmita' jibes at BJD

Hitting out at BJP leaders for their "Odia asmita is in danger" jibes at the ruling BJD, party leader VK Pandian who is a close aide of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, has said that the BJP-led central government did not "spend a single rupee" for development of Odia as a classical language and that Bharat Ratna has not been bestowed on former state Chief Minister Bjiu Patnaik "who is pride of India" even as it has been given "to so many l…