Bhubaneswar: The ‘coalgate’ noose appears to be tightening around the neck of the Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha. As skeleton after skeleton comes tumbling out of the cupboard, the Patnaik-led BJD government is finding it tough to justify many of the recommendations it had made for coal block allocation to private companies. When Union Minister Srikant Jena produced a 2002 letter written by the chief minister to the then coal minister Ravi Shankar Prasad recommending the allocation of the Utkal ‘B’ coal block in the Talcher coalfields, already allocated to a Tamil...