Bhubaneswar:
Newly-elected Biju Janata Dal (BJD) legislator from Patnagarh in Odisha has courted controversy by forcing a government official to do sit-ups as punishment for alleged poor quality of road construction in his constituency.
A video clip of Saroj Kumar Meher forcing a junior engineer of the Public Works Department (PWD) of Belpada block to do 100 sit-ups in public has gone viral on the social media.
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The MLA also threatened the engineer with violence if he refused to follow his orders.
In the video, the engineer is seen doing sit-ups and apologizing for poor quality work.
Mr Meher is a first-time MLA from Patnagarh constituency in Balangir district.
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