The District Congress Committee on Thursday organised a party workers’ meeting at Anakhia ahead of the Tirtol by-poll.
State party in-charge A Chella Kumar, PCC president Niranjan Patnaik, MLAs Suresh Routray and Tara Prasad Bahinipati, leaders Chiranjib Biswal, Pradeep Majhi and Ganeswar Behera attended the meeting.
The meeting was held to seek views from party sympathisers for selecting a candidate for the by-election.Chella Kumar spoke about the “misrules” of both Union and State Governments.
He urged party workers to be united during the by-poll. Meanwhile, three of senior Congress leaders have crossed over to BJD and BJP. The party is facing dearth of a suitable aspirant for the by-poll.