Around 500 demonstrators participated from Odisha in a rally called by the Bhumi Adhikar Andolan on February 24 at the Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
They were led by Narendra Mohanty(INSAF), Trilochan Punji (Zindabad Sangathan), Balabhadra Mallick (Adivasi Adhikar Andolan), Debaraj Majhi and Sishu Mallick (Banbasi Suraksha Parishad , Kandhamal) Soyamprabha Sahoo (Domestic labours Organisation) , Jagat Samal and Ahalya Sahoo (Un-organized labour Union) and Gandhi Mallick of Sramajibi Adhikar Abhijan. Among others noted activist like Prafulla Samantara, Arun Jena and Balakrushna Sendh also joined.
The key demands included withdraw of land (Amendment) Bill 2015, implement land Act, 2013, stop forced land acquisitions in the name of land pooling and other means, tampering with the Forest Rights Act, 2006 and ensure its effective and timely implementation, find effective ways to tackle the agrarian crisis immediately, ensure right support prices for the produce and compensate crop loss, complete the unfinished agenda of land reforms, implement land ceiling, provide housing rights for the poor and stop forced evictions at any cost, ensure 300 days work and `300 wage daily, implement TS Subramanian Committee recommendations and changes to environmental laws, no to labour laws relaxations, ensure labour rights, measures to stop violence against women and ensure their property rights, stop harassing people in name of false nationalist hysteria and arrest rise of fascist Hindutva forces.