Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda has again started hunger strike in the Berhampur Circle Jail here protesting his solitary confinement in the jail and accusing authorities of stopping his letters from reaching the court.
He also demanded that he be provided with the list of cases pending against him in different police stations. Earlier, Panda was on hunger strike from March 31 to April 4. He had postponed his strike after jail authorities assured that they would draw the attention of the authorities to his demands.
Since his demands were not fulfilled, he is on an indefinite fast since Wednesday, said his lawyer Deepak Patnaik. In another development, Maoist interlocutor Dandapani Mohanty, who is lodged in the same jail for alleged Maoist activities, threatened to launch a hunger strike from Friday. Mohanty was arrested from his house in the city on February 8, 2013.