The loknayak Jayprakash Narayan International Study Centre New Delhi, Odisha committee in association with the loktantra Senani Sangh, Odisha Pradesh organised a campaign on ‘protection of democracy’ here on Tuesday.
Former Union Minister and centre’s national president Braja Kishore Tripathy inaugurated the meeting which was presided over by eminent social activist Prasant Mishra.
Recalling the days during the Emergency declared by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975, Tripathy said now the situation in the country and the State is more darker than Emergency.
Stating that it is high-time to save the democracy, he said the social transformation programme advocated by Jayprakash Narayan need to be followed and that can be obtained through a third freedom struggle.
In a proposal, the members have demanded that more facilities be provided for the freedom fighters and Satyagrahi of the State in line with other 10 States. They need to be given social recognition, pension and free medical treatment
Among others, former MlA Jagneswar Babu, senior journalist Rabi Das, former Minister Panchanan Kanungo, eminent social activist Krushna Chandra Patra, Sarada Prasanna Swain, Pravat Samantray, Sudarshan Das, Krushna Chandra Maharana, Prafulla Samantara, Kamalakant Pandey, Kishore Dash, Pradip Pradhan, Amiya Pandav and Manoj Jena were present.