Former Chief Minister Hemananda Biswal has written a letter to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi drawing his attention to what he alleged a conspiracy of the Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd MCL), a Government of India undertaking under the Ministry of Coal, to gift the recently-constructed (with spending of Rs 492 crore) medical college at Talcher to private bodies.
Biswal stated that during the UPA Government, the then Coal Minister had decided to set up the medical college in the coal belt of Talcher being fully funded by the MCL and it was because of the then UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s commitment to the people of Odisha.
