People from all walks of life paid tributes to former Umarkote MLA Jagabandhu Majhi on his eighth death anniversary at a special meeting held at Raighar on Monday.
ST and SC Development Minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi, Rajya Sabha member and BJD observer of undivided Koraput district Somya Ranjan Patnaik, DPC Chairperson and Nabarangpur MLA Manohar Randhari, Umerkote MLA Subas Gond, Zilla Parisad Chairperson Bhagabati Bhatra, BJD district president Prahallad Tripathy, general secretary Asis Ranjan Patnaik paid tributes.
Umerkote MLA Gond thanked the people for sharing their grief to Majhi while stating that he was following Majhi’s footstep to serve the people of Umerkote assembly segment.
Notably, wheelchair bound Majhi and his PSO Prasant Patro were shot dead by three assailants while he was distributing land pattas to landless tribals at Gona village under Raighar block in 2011. Earlier in 2004, Majhi was shot in the waist by miscreants and paralysed in legs.