Retired babus eager to test power politics in Orissa.

With elections round the corner and new political alignments emerging, many new retired bureaucrats are making a beeline for power politics in Orissa and are joining the fray to test political power.
Anadi Sahu, a former IPS officer, has already fared well in politics, being elected to Lok Sabha twice, first time from Cuttack as a Congress candidate and next from Berhampur as a BJP nominee. He has now chosen the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) as his new forum.
Sources said that at least a dozen of retired IAS, IPS and OAS officers are desirous of joining politics. PK Mishra, former Union Secretary in the Ministry of Coal, has already joined Congress. Reportedly, he has, so far confined his activities to an advisory role for the PCC president. Livinus Kindo, who retired as member, Board of Revenue, is planning for a political career from his native district of Sundargarh, sources confirmed.While Sarbeswar Mohanty, a former Secretary of Information and Public Relations Department, is known to be busy nourishing political ambitions, his successor in that department, Digamber Mohanty, is also reported to be interested in a political career from his Bhadrak district.
BK Tripathy, a retired IPS officer, and NK Mishra, a retired IAS officer, are known to be planning major political roles for themselves and to fight elections from their respective districts. PC Mishra, former Additional Director General of Police, has his sight set on his native Nayagarh Assembly constituency. Besides, two other retired IPS officers, Kulamani Deo and Surendra Nath Swain are all set to try their luck in politics, sources said. While Deo has joined the NCP to fight the Assembly polls from his home constituency of Sukinda in Jajpur district, Swain seems to be a believer in the ekla chalo (go it alone) principle.
The most important among the retired bureaucrats is Jatish Chandra Mohanty, who has abdicated his elite IAS job in Andhra Pradesh and floated a regional outfit, the Samruddha Odisha. He claims to have the divine mandate from Andhra Pradesh-based Amma Bhagwan to come to power and abolish poverty within five years from Orissa, the poorest State in the country.