Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has intensified his attack on the Opposition Congress, stating that 70 percent of the party’s members are “Bibhisan,” a term used to denote a traitor or internal saboteur.
The Chief Minister made the comment during a meeting with BJP leaders, asserting that if the Congress were to take action against these elements, the party would be completely finished.
“Seventy percent of Congress are Bibhisan,” Shri Majhi reportedly told the gathering, adding, “If action will be taken against them, Congress will be finished.” The statement weaponizes the widely perceived internal factionalism within the Congress unit.
CM Shri Majhi’s strong remarks come against the backdrop of previous acknowledgments of internal strife by senior Congress leaders themselves.
Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Chief Bhakta Charan Das had earlier spoken out about the presence of ‘Bibhisan’ within the party ranks, particularly following the defeat in the Nuapada by-election.
Following the Nuapada bypoll result, where the Congress candidate failed to win, Shri Das publicly alleged that there were internal betrayers who worked against the party candidate. Mr. Das had stated that every party has ‘Bibhisans’ and vowed to trace and take disciplinary action against those who sabotaged the party’s prospects in the bypoll.
The convergence of Chief Minister Shri Majhi’s sweeping allegation and the earlier, more specific admissions by PCC Chief Shri Das highlights a serious, ongoing crisis of loyalty and cohesion within the Congress party in the state.
The Governing BJP is clearly using these internal conflicts as a political tool to undermine the Opposition’s credibility, portraying the Congress as an organization consumed by its own divisions. The statement by the Chief Minister effectively takes the Congress party’s internal matter and blows it up into a major public political narrative.