Hundreds of people staged a peaceful ‘dharna’ before Sub Collector office in Bhubaneswar on Monday morning, expressing solidarity with the ongoing farmers’ agitation at Delhi.
People’s movement leaders, different political leaders and activists joined the ‘dharna’. They held placards displaying slogans like 'PM Modi come to sense (Hosh mein Aao)', 'Withdraw Black Farm Law' 'Boycott Ambani & Adani products', 'Nation stands with farmers.'
Interestingly, a large number of women joined the rally.
The protest meeting was chaired by member of Kishan Samanwaya Samiti Debiprasad Prusti. Jatani MLA Suresh Chandra Routray, Bhubaneswar district Congress president Biswajit Dash, Sura Jena( CPI), Bijaya Parida, lawyers Shivanand Ray, Manoj Nayak and women leaders Shreya Mohanty, Rashmi Mohapatra, Mohan Jena, Jayakrushna Subudhhi, Ashis Mallik, Ashok Das and Manoranjanm Dash among others spoke.
The speakers supported the farmers movement and submitted a memorandum to the Sub Collector addressed to President Ram Nath Kovind.
Describing the farmers' movement as historic, they said that they felt proud to be a part of the nation wide stir.
They criticised the Modi Government's attitude and branded the Modi Government as an agent of corporate houses like Ambani and Adani.