Bhubaneswar, March 24: BJP today accused Malkangiri district collector R Vineel Krishna of having links with the Maoists while Congress reiterated its demand for a CBI probe into the abduction of the 30-year-old IAS officer on February 16.
The issue was raised in the Orissa assembly during the debate over budgetary demand of the Home department.
“R Vineel Krishna was a member of All India Student Federation (AISF, the students’ wing of CPI) and his father-in-law a former comrade of the Communist Party. His abduction by Maoists is, therefore, not above suspicion,” BJP legislature party leader K V Singhdeo told the assembly.
“The Malkangiri district collector is in hand-in-glove with Maoists,” Singhdeo alleged.
Krishna, along with a junior engineer, had been abducted on February 16 when he was on a visit to the remote Chitrakonda area in the district.
–Agencies