On Tuesday, Bhubaneswar was rife with speculations that the dissident group within the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) was all set to topple the 12 year old Naveen Patnaik government while the Chief Minister was away in London on an eight-day official trip. By evening, the speculations appeared real when nearly 25 BJD MLAs including four ministers were found marching into the house of Pyarimohan Mohapatra, the dissident BJD MP who had been calling the shots both in the party and the government until recently when he fell out with Naveen Patnaik.

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