Odisha Lok Sabha MP Baijayant "Jay" Panda found himself in trouble on Thursday, 3 May, when a sub-divisional judicial magistrate's court in the Kendrapada district of the state directed the police to file a criminal case against him on charges of submitting a "false" affidavit for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, reported The Times of India.
Panda, the MP from Kendrapara and a known critic of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, was suspended from the BJD for "weakening" the party in January this year.