Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has questioned the granting of hefty funds to certain states by Pranab Mukherjee, the United Progressive Alliance's Presidential candidate, and sought to know if this was meant to influence the ruling parties including Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal - United and the Trinamool Congress.
"Pranab Mukherjee as the finance minister had doled out huge sums of money amounting to lakhs of crores to Bihar, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh," Patnaik said after returning to Bhubaneshwar from Delhi on Sunday night.
"Could it be that this money is going because he wanted certain parties like Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh, Nitish Kumar's JD-U and Trinamool Congress of Mamata Banerjee to support his candidature as the President of India," asked Patnaik.
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