Bhubaneswar

Min Mallick shown black flags in B'swar

PNS

There is no letup in waiving black flags to Naveen Patnaik’s Ministers since the Union Ministers were attacked by BJD members in Bargarh on June 23.

On Wednesday, a group of BJP workers showed black flags to Steel and Mines Minister Prafulla Kumar Mallick at Jaleswar in Baleswar district.

Besides waving black flags, the saffron party workers shouted anti-BJD slogans and protested the visit of the Minister to the district.

As many as 40 BJP workers were detained by police after the incident, sources said.

The incident came a day after BJP workers had waived black flags at Higher Education Minister Pradeep Panigrahy and Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Sanjay Dasburma in Ganjam district.

A similar incident had also taken place on Monday as Health Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak was shown black flags by BJP workers when he was on a visit to the Baleswar District Headquarters Hospital to take stock of the diarrhoea situation.