The Utkal Bikasha Juba Parishad volunteers led by its president Debiprasad Prusti cleaned the statue of Jayi Rajaguru erected at the Secretariat square here and garlanded it on his death anniversary on Wednesday.
While no ruling party members, Ministers, MlAs and Government officers joined the programme, it was attended by BJP MlA Pradip Purohit, besides Parishad volunteers Sarita Barik, Chinmaya Mishra, Sitaballav Mohapatra, Parsuram Dwivedy, Ajay Parida, Satya Jena, Gyanada Sagar, lipak Choudhury, Sonu Barik. School students also joined the programme and paid floral tribute to the first martyr of armed independence struggle against the British in India.
Purohit condemned the attitude of the State Government in neglecting the martyr and demanded that a documentary be made on Rajaguru.