Venting strong discontentment over no progress of AIIMS satellite centre in Baleswar, the Congress on Tuesday held a protest meeting here. Besides former Minister Srikant Jena, several other leaders of the party attended the meeting.
Jena lambasted the Government at the Centre, alleging that the much hyped dream project in north India has been shelved. He said that there was a conspiracy for which the project was stalled. He accused the Central Government of showing apathy. He said that during his tenure as a Union Minister, several new projects were made in Baleswar. The issue of stalling of AIIMs project would be highlighted in all the blocks, he warned.
Former MlA Jayanarayan Mohanty, Chitta Sarangi, Satyanaryan Mohanty, Akshay Mallik, Sanjib Giri,Bikram Panda, Bidhan Jena, Benumadhab Panda, Padmalochan lenka, Satyasiba Das, Ranjan Baug, Sarat Raj and Urmila Majhi were among several leaders present.