BHUBANESWAR: Maintaining that the Centre had given conditional clearance to Polavaram dam project, the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) criticised the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for trying to politicise the issue.

BJD is trying to politicise the issue even after the assurance given by Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik that al