leaders and activists of the Vyasadev Mandal BJP led by its president Nityananda Mahalik conducted a Chaka Jam (preventing vehicles to move) at Dala Chhak here on Monday.
Hundreds of leaders and activists detained motor vehicles on the Panikoili-Rajamunda NH-215 demanding immediate arrest of Bhubaneswar Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena for his alleged complicity in sex slur and the murder of engineering student Rushi Pradhan.
Jajpur Road police station IIC Sisir Kumar Mishra and other police personnel took the agitators into detention. However, they were released after noon.
A total of 41 activists, including Mandal president Mahalik, general secretaries Biswa Ranjan Pattanayak and Arun Das, Media Cell president Dushmanta Kumar Rout, secretary Binay Rout, Mahila Morcha president Bidyutprava Ray and general secretary Mili Mahalik, Dr Amiya Kumar Jena and SC Cell president Niranjan Perai, had been detained.