BJD burns Central Min’s effigy at Baripada
Baripada: The Mayurbhanj district unit of the Biju Janata Dal on Monday held here a protest meeting on continuous refusal of the Centre on special status to Odisha and the Mahanadi issue. The BJP is responsible for all these problems, the BJD leaders alleged. Immediately after the meeting, the party workers burnt effigies of Union Minister VK Singh and Chhatishgarh Water Resources Minister Amar Agarwalla in front of the District Collectorate. BJD district president and former MP laxman Tudu, senior leaders Subramanyam Mohanty, Jeetendra Mohanty and Raj Kishore Acharya were present.
Dhenkanal rape: Cong slams Govt
Baripada: The Mayurbhanj District Congress on Tuesday held a meeting to protest against what they described as a heinous and barbaric incident of Balikuma village of Kankadahad block in Dhenkanal district. The protest meeting was held in front of the Collectorate. The speakers addressing the party workers’ said that the brutal gang-rape of a Dalit widow is shame on the BJD Government. DCC President Pradeep Rath, former MP Sushila Tiriya and other prominent party leaders like Niroj lochan Dash, Jyotiprakash Rath and Pradeep Mishra spoke.
Power cuts hit normal life in Baripada
Baripada: Most parts of Baripada on Monday evening suffered due to power cut for almost five hours. As the supply of electricity was stopped from around 5 pm to about 10 pm, the residents were forced to grope in the dark during the peak hour of evening.
JSpur BJD protests Centre’s apathy towards State
Jagatsinghpur: District BJD students’ unit leaders and party supporters on Monday held a demonstration in front of the Collectorate protesting the Union Government’s negligence towards the State’s development by not giving Special Category State status to Odisha and adopting an indifferent attitude towards the Mahanadi water dispute. The party supporters led by students’ unit president Amarendra Das held the demonstration and submitted a memorandum to the President of India through the Collector.
M’nadi row: BJD holds demo at Sonepur
Sonepur: Activists of the Biju Yuva Janata Dal (BYJD) and the Biju Chatra Janata Dal (BCJD) staged a demonstration in front of the Collectorate here on Monday in protest against the Union Government’s alleged support to the Chhattisgarh Government in constructing barrages upstream Mahanadi. The activists led by Subarnapur district BYJD president Ashok Kumar Nanda also demanded that the Centre grant Special Category Sate status to Odisha soon. Among others, BCJD president Saswat Mishra, BJD district president Saroj Kampa. VP Ramesh Pujari, Birmaharajpur block Chairman Santosh Bhoi, Dunguripali block Chairman Makardhwaj Sahu and Binka town BYJD president Somnath Mishra were present.
2 die as car rams into electric pole in N’garh
NAYAGARH: At least two persons were killed and two others sustained critical injuries as a car in which they were travelling rammed into an electric pole on NH-57 near Sanpada in Nayagarh district late on Monday night. According to police sources, four youths of the Matiapada area in Puri district had come to lunisara village under Nuagaon block of Nayagarh district to attend their friend’s marriage ceremony. While they were going by the car to the bride’s house at Magarabandha village under the Sarankul police limits in Nayagarh district, the vehicle dashed against the electric pole killing two of them on the spot and grievously injuring two others.The deceased were identified as Sukant Sahu and Sanjay Panda. The injured were initially admitted to the Nayagarh District Headquarters Hospital before being shifted to a Bhubaneswar hospital as their conditions deteriorated.