Pradesh Congress Committee president Prasad Harichandan addressed a mass gathering here appealing to voters to vote for the party candidates in the civic body polls. He was accompanied by Jagatsinghpur MlA Chiranjib Biswal, Rajnagar MlA Ansuman Mohanty and Salepur MlA Prakash Parida among others. Harichandan criticised the State BJD Government and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for anti people activities and requested Paradip voters to elect Congress party in the coming election.
He was welcomed from the main entrance gate of Paradip town at Atharabanki to the meeting place at Badapadia taxi stand. The election meeting was presided over by Town Congress president Ranjan Kumar Das. Election Committee chairman Bapi Sarkhel, PCC member Pramod Kishor Jena, Youth Congress president Santosh Kumar Biswal, District Congress Committee president Rabi Narayan Mohanty and Youth Congress leader Anup Kumar Sahani were present, besides the contesting candidates of Congress from all 19 wards.