BJP workers on Monday staged a day-long token dharna in front of the Baidyanathpur police station here demanding arrest of former Kendrapada SP Satish Gajbhiye for attacking public including lawyers and social activists near Sarathi Ashram in Kendrapada district.
The party workers supporting lawyers’ agitation against police atrocities on protestors in Kendrapada came in a procession and sat on dharna after staging demonstration in front of the police station.
BJP leaders alleged that Gajbhiye attacked protestors with lathi at the behest of the self-styled God man after getting approval of some powerful people from the third floor of the Secretariat.
The former SP was acting like a wounding tiger and mercilessly beating the public in Taliban style, they added.
The BJP leaders including former Brahmapur Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mayor Shiva Shankar Das, BJP general secretaries Sunil Kumar Sahu and Gopinath Panda and District Mahila Morcha president Babita Patra said Gajbhiye was responsible for death of 23 police personnel in Malkangiri.
He was interrogated by the CBI in chit fund scam and involved in firing on women and children at the behest of liquor mafias at Namtara in Kendrapada district, they added.
The BJP leaders demanded CBI inquiry into the Sarathi baba scandal and Gajbhiye row.
They also demanded stringent action against all the other police officers and jawans who were seen on footage destroying public properties and beating mercilessly at the behest of the former SP.