A condolence meeting was held here on Sunday for death of two working journalists in Bihar and Jharkhand.
Dushmanta Kumar Rout presided over it. Among others Jajpur district CITU president Prafulla Nayak, trade union leaders Chandramani Patra, Dhirendra Behera and Debendra Mallick, scribes Jayashankar Das, Nityananda Mahalik, Biswaranjan Pattanayak, Pradeep Jena, Prafulla Sahoo, Debasis Baral, Subas Chandra Nayak, Abhiram Parida, women leader Bidyutprava Ray, Diptirani Das, Suman Ray, Prafulla Barik and Abhisek Malla participated.
Notably, Rajdeo Ranjan of Siwan bureau chief of Hindi daily ‘Hindustan’ in Bihar and Akhilesh Pratap Singh, a news channel reporter of Charada in Jharkhand were killed.
They demanded CBI probe into the matter and stringent action against the miscreants besides appropriate compensation for the deceased’s kin. They also condoled the death of former Finance Minister Raghunath Patnaik.