Tension continued to prevail here as two groups of the ruling BJD are not relenting from attacking each other amidst police inaction since Thursday.
Source said the uproar started as some locals cordoned off sitting MlA and BJD candidate for the Rourkela Assembly seat Sarada Nayak at Gopabandhupalli on Thursday alleging that he was trying to influence voters when voting was in progress.
The situation turned ugly when some BJD supporters scolded and beat former Rourkela Municipality Vice-Chairman and BJD State Council member RN Mishra alleging that he did not support Nayak and, thus, sabotaged the party.
Though Mishra and his supporters immediately filed a complaint with the Jhirpani police but the latter’s inaction led to another scuffle between the two groups. Some BJP supporters are reportedly supporting the Mishra group.
Though, both the groups lodged FIRs against each other, the police were yet to take any action.In another incident while some BJD supporters were sitting in Koelnagar market at around 11.30 pm on Friday, some youths pelted stones at them. The situation came under control after police disbursed both the parties from the spot.
Similarly, a youth Sanjay Das was hospitalised after being severely wounded by a group of youth at Jagda, Police has detained one in connection with attack on Sanjay.A tailor master of Bagbuddi Basti in Chhend area was also seriously wounded on Saturday.