The birthday of legendary leader Biju Patnaik, popularly known as Bijubabu, was celebrated enthusiastically in Kalinganagar town here on Tuesday.BJD members garlanded the statue of Biju Patnaik and distributed sweets among children. Later in the day, the BJD’s ‘Ghare Ghare Sankha’ programme was inaugurated at Barbil where BJD Barbil town president Prasanta Kumar Sahu presided over the meeting.
Among others, senior leader Labanyabati Sahu and Barbil Municipality former Vice-Chairman Bijaya Mohanty were present. It might be mentioned here that 70 years back Bijubabu had founded the Kalinga Tubes here, the operation of which is closed since more years.