President Pratibha Patil, her husband Devisingh Shekhawat and Orissa Governor M C Bhandari on Wednesday evening had a close shave when three blades of their helicopter ferrying them back from Puri hit the asbestos shed of a shed at Bhubaneswar airport.
The trust motion, moved in a special assembly session four days after the BJP withdrew support to the Patnaik government following the collapse of Biju Janata Dal-BJP alliance over seat-sharing in the Lok Sabha polls, was passed in barely two hours of the proceedings
Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was directed by Governor M C Bhandare on Sunday to prove his majority on the floor of the Assembly on March 11 after his coalition government was reduced to a minority following Bharatiya Janata Party's withdrawal of support ending their 11-year-old alliance.
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