Opposition BJP and Congress on Monday protested the Chhatra Samavesh organised by the ruling BJD here in the day by staging rallies, Congress workers burnt an effigy of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Terming the BJD’s students’ convention of as an eyewash, activists of the BJP youth wing led by its president Umakanta Patanaik took out a rally. “At a time when the colleges and universities across the State are facing nearly 50-per cent teaching staff vacancy then on what moral ground the BJD is organising such a convention,” asked Patnaik.
He also blasted the Chief Minister for the deplorable education system, rising unemployment and migration and asked the Government to solve the issues instead of holding such conventions.
He said the Government is trying to divert people’s attention in order to suppress its own lapses.
He further challenged that if the Chief Minister has guts, he must come out with answers in detail. Party activists too sent postcards to the Chief Minister pressing their demand.
The Congress youth wing too protested the BJD convention and the arrest of its leaders before the Chhatra Samavesh. The activists burnt an effigy of the Chief Minister, saying they were arrested at the instances of the BJD supremo.