During his visit to Chitrakonda in Malkangiri district on Wednesday, Chief Minster Naveen Patnaik called upon the Maoists to return to the mainstream of the society by giving up violence.
“Violence is not the way of solution of any problem and there is no place for it in a democracy,” said Patnaik. While addressing the public at Chitrakonda, Patnaik announced that four Notified Area Councils (NACs) in southern Odisha, Sunabeda, Malkangiri, Koraput and Umarkote, would soon be upgraded to municipalities. CM also inaugurated and laid foundation stones for several developmental projects in Malkangiri and Nabarangpur districts.