Bhubaneswar: With internal feud in Odisha unit of the Congress becoming an open affair, general secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC) A Chellakumar will visit the state to keep the fire under control.
Chellakumar, who is coming on a two-day visit from August 31, will attend the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting on August 31 evening. OPCC president Niranjan Patnaik will be present at the meeting.
The factionalism in the party came to the fore recently when Congress whip in the Assembly Taraprasad Bahinipati raised a banner of revolt against Patnaik. Questioning the leadership of OPCC president, Bahinipati had gone to the media to ask how the former re-inducted former MLA from Laxmipur Kailash Chandra Kulesika into the party without his knowledge.
