Delivering a blow to the proposed Posco project, the Anti-Posco Solidarity Forum on Wednesday protested the four-day visit of South Korean President Park Geun-Hye to the country.
The protesters observed the day as ‘Protest Day’ to show their strong opposition to the steel mill and the environmental clearance accorded to it by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). Besides, they also protested the recommendation of the State Government to the Centre for allotment of the Khandadhar mines to the South Korean firm.
Hundreds of men and women took out a rally from the Master Canteen Square to the lower PMG area and observed the ‘Protest Day.’ They burnt the effigies of the South Korean President, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Union Environment and Forests Minister Veerappa Moily and Chief Minister Naveen Patanik.
Among others, city coordinator of the forum Narendra Mohanty, Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti spokesperson Prashant Paikaray, CPI(Ml)’s Sivram, CPI’s Satish Mishra, CPI (Ml) liberation’s Mahendra Parida, CPI (M)’s Suresh Panigrahi, Odisha Jan Morcha’s Amiya Pandab, RJD’s Harish Mohapatra, SP’s Sudarson Patnaik and human rights activist Biswapriya Kanungo joined the rally.