The Freethought Party of India (FPI) held demonstration in the lower PMG here on Friday demanding that the 21Hindu temples in the Utkal University campus be demolished forthwith and the stone image of Goddess Saraswati in front of its main gate be shifted.
Party general secretary B Ramchandra CST Voltaire observed that time has come to fully disown and discard the theocratic ideas and educational institutions be secularised. This would bring an end to caste reservation and communal politics, he said.
FPI president Bijayananda Kar, vice-president Harish Kar, writer PK Karbar, Ambedkaraite thinker MS Yadav, columnist Manas Jena, ODAM secretary Prasanta Mallick, FIRA leader Basanti Acharya, FPI activist Natabar Maharana, ODAM’s district level leaders Promod Pattayat and Kamakshya Nayak among others spoke.