A Satsahi dance festival has been organised in Cuttack, Odisha from June 8 to 13. The programme is of national level and the participants from different states will take part in the programme. BK Balanjinappa will represent Jharkhand in the course from Divine Sparks Fine Arts, lohardaga.
Notably, Balanjinappa has been selected to be honoured with National Kala Bhushan Award by Cuttack dance festival committee. In the field of art, the contribution of Balanjinappa had been appreciable and he had been honored many times earlier.
For the selection of this grand honour, many persons wished him warm congratulations. Those included Rajya Sabha member Dheeraj Prasad Sahu, MlA KK Bhagat, Jharkhand Pradesh Congress head Sukhdeo Bhagat, Om Prakash Singh, the president of BJP Kisan Morcha, Dr. Ganesh Prasad, Dr. Raj Mittal, Madan Mohan Pandey, Alok Sahu, Sameema Khatoon, Rajendra Khatri, Warish Quraishi, Ritesh Kumar, Prof Shasahi Gupta, Prof Sneh Kumar and many others.