The Committee against Communalism and Fascism organised a mass convention here on Saturday against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register for Citizenship (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR).
Binapani Das presided over the meeting. Swayamprabha Nayak presented the draft proposal for the convention. Prof Birendra Nayak, Dr Ashutosh Parida, ‘Samdrusthti’ editor Sudhir Patnaik, lawyer Gobardhan Pujari, Bishwabasu Das, Kshirod Kar, Raja Suresh, Khageswar Sethi, Somanath Behera and Sachidananda Pradhan spoke, among others.
Speakers viewed that the Union Government has brought the divisive and communal CAA, NPR and NRC to divert people’s attention to its various failures. People opposing these acts are being termed at anti-nationals and facing police atrocities. The agitations should continue in democratic way till they are withdrawn, they said.
A committee comprising Binapani Dasas as convenor and Biswabasu Das, Akshay Das, Rajendra Burma and Purna Behara as joint convenors was formed to expedite the agitation State-wide