BJD spokesman and former minister P K Deb, during an interaction with media over the Mahanadi water dispute issue, said "Some times the departments give wrong information to the Assembly.
Deb was replying to a question as to how the state government in its petition to the Water Resources Ministry claimed the state would be affected due to projects on the upstream of Mahanadi, while the Chief Minister in a reply to the Assembly in 2010 had rejected such possibility.
BJP state unit president Basant Panda also criticised the state government for misleading the Assembly.
"The false information given by the Chief Minister in the Assembly is an insult to democracy," Panda said.
Government Chief Whip Anant Das was quick to respond that government departments never provide wrong information to the State Assembly.
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