bhubaneswar the ruling bjd on thursday equated continued central neglect with a recurrent fourth disaster that haunts the state every year along with the three kinds of natural calamities droughts floods and cyclones that frequently ravage the state opposition political parties described the bjds anticentre salvo as a tactic to cover up public anger against the states inability to check farmers suicides speaking on a motion on continued central neglect towards the disasterprone state moved by government chief whip ananta das food supplies and consumer welfare minister sanjay dasburma said while natural disasters such as droughts floods and cyclones have hit the state 40 times in 68 years since independence central neglect is a repetitive fourth disaster speaking about central aid for this years drought dasburma who heads the bjd youth wing said while the centre had released advance assistance to maharashtra karnataka chhattisgarh and jharkhand in the case of odisha it is busy sending one central team after the other to the state the ministers outburst coincided with the start of twoday tour of droughtaffected districts by an interministerial central team led by k s srinivas joint secretary marketing ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare the team divided into two groups and one went to bargarh while the other went to nuapada on thursday one team came in october and gave an interim report now another team has come the point of contention here is that indias federal structure is in danger because of narrow political considerations of the centre the minister said earlier initiating the discussion the government chief whip said the centre had acceded to a fraction of the states demands in the past many years one leader after another attacked the successive governments at the centre the discussion was on till the time of filing of this report at 7pm outside the house former revenue and disaster management minister s n patro said we had thought the nda government would be different from the upa however it proved to be the same countering the bjd bjp law maker pradeep purohit said the central neglect allegation is a poor excuse by the bjd government to hide its inefficiency the narendra modi government has given the state an iim an iiser and increase fund allocation under the revised formula of 13th finance commission the provision for odisha in the last railway budget was the best ever devoid of issues the bjd government has come up with an absurd theory of central neglect purohit said echoing similar views chiranjeev biswal of congress said after being criticized by the opposition on the farmer suicide issue bjd was using the central neglect allegation to divert peoples attention