The BJD organised a huge rally from Gandhi Chhak to the Maa Subarnabarahi Temple in Ward-20 in the Jagatsinghpur Municipality area to mark the end of its Jansampark Padyatra in the district on Sunday.
The rally led by State Planning Board Vice-Chairman and BJD district president Bishnu Das was participated by over 3,000 party workers. Leaders garlanded the Mahatma Gandhi statute at Gandhi Chhack and moved though the town to reach the Maa Subarnabarahi Temple. On the way, the leaders too garlanded the Biju Patnaik statue.
BJD SC Cell district president Manoj Bhoi presided over a meeting held at the temple ground. In their speeches, the leaders highlighted about various welfare programmes undertaken by the State Government and negligence meted out to the State by the Union Government.
Among others, Biju Yuva Janata Dal (BJD) district president Amarendra Das and vice-president Dipti Das, lawyer Dolagobinda Dash, Madhusudan Sahoo, Minati Das, Block Chairman Bijaylaxmi Behera, ZP members Lingaraj Swain, Subal Behera, Pratap Behera, Jagannath Muduli, Manju Mallick and Kiranbala Mangaraj, Elina Das, Meer Ajmir Alli, Pradipta Bhuyan, Bibhu Prasad Das, Manindra Guru, Saroj Swain, Rabi Narayan Jena, Lata Das, Basant Mohapatra and student leader Bijay Shankar Das spoke, among others.
Party workers from the Kujang, Tirtol, Raghunathpur, Biridi, Jagatsinghpur and Naugaon areas attended the rally.