Hundreds of youths led by State president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Tankadhar Tripathy staged a demonstration in front of the residential office of the Sambalpur Collector here demanding employment to the local youths.
Police lifted about 120 of them when the slogan shouting youths tried to barge into the office breaking police cordon. They moved in a procession exhibiting their degree certificates from the Jail chowk with placards demanding employment in the various industries and State Government departments.
The arrested include BJP national secretary Suresh Pujari and several others.
Addressing a gathering, the speakers alleged that although normal Government works were affected due to large numbers of vacancies in all the departments of the State Government, no sincere step was taken to fill up them. Despite large numbers of industries having come up in Sambalpur district, the local youths are deprived of employment.
The industries are providing employment to people of other States without providing any scope to the local unemployed, they slammed.