Police took hundreds of BJP and Congress activists under detention in Nayagarh and Puri districts ahead of Chief Minister Naveen Patnak’s visit to the two districts on Tuesday.
According to information, as many as 150 BJP and 100 Congress activists were detained at Nimapada in Puri district and over a dozen of activists belonging to the two opposition parties taken to preventive custody in Nayagarh.
The Chief Minister first visited three places in Nayagarh district. He inaugurated a high-level bridge over river Kusumi on the Angisingi-Puanial road, school hostels and electrification projects and laid foundation-stones for some road and water supply projects.
later in the afternoon, he moved to Nimapada, where he unveiled statues of Mahatma Gandhi and Biju Patnaik, a sports complex, a cyclone shelter and a water supply project. He laid foundation-stones for Nimapada bus-stand, bridges, a check-dam over river Dhanua, among other projects.