Protesting against the repeated fuel price hike, the Nimapara BJD student and youth wings burnt an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the bus-stand on Friday.
The BJD activists held a rally and went round the town shouting slogans against the Central Government in which Jagatsinghpur MP Dr Kulamani Samal and local MlA Samir Ranjan Dash joined. A meeting was also held at the bus-stand.
Among others, youth leader Rashmi Panda, NPR College Students’ Union president Dipankar lenka, Chandan Pradhan, Sunil Dash, former Ravenshaw University Students’ Union president Santanu Mishra, NAC Chairman Jogajanma Sahoo, former block Chairman Sanatan Pradhan, NAC BJD president Pradipta Khatoi, youth leader Jibanananda Mohapatra, Akshaya Behera, Santosh Ojha and Balakrushna Ojha were present.