Kendrapada BJD MP and actor Anubhav Mohanty, who is now at loggerheads with his actress-wife Varsha Priyadarshini, hogged limelight for his humanitarian gesture of shouldering the bier of one of his protégés and a BJD activist, who died of cardiac arrest untimely in Kendrapada on Wednesday, to the funeral ground.
Despite his mental agony for family tension, Mohanty came to the district soon after he came to know the untimely demise of his protégé and former Pattamundai block chairman Ashok Kumar Dhal due to cardiac arrest.
He visited Dhal’s residence and showed his solidarity to the grief-stricken family members. He shouldered the bier of Dhal along with the later’s kin.
“Tutu Bhai (Ashok Dhal) was very popular in the district for his hard work for both people’s welfare and strengthening of the BJD. His untimely demise is a great loss for me,” said Mohanty.
“Never we have seen or heard an MP shouldering a bier or attending a funeral procession of a party worker. Mohanty is really exceptional. His humanitarian gesture is an example for others,” stated several BJD activists.
Before attending the funeral procession, Mohanty had Darshan of the Trinity in the Baladevjew Temple from outside, seeking blessings for overcoming his family tension and cure of his ailing father.Earlier to his visit, he had posted a video in his Facebook mentioning,
“I am Anubhav Mohanty and I am the unstoppable common man kind of representative of my most dearest and respected Kendrapadias. Dirty people, beware please. No politics and no cheapness please.”Several BJP and other opposition party workers, who had planned to protest entry of Mohanty to the district, remained mute spectators.