After passing of ten years of the Kandhamal riot, the Kandhamal Naya Santi O Sadbhabana Samaj, Baliguda, organised a meeting and sent a memorandum for the Chief Minister with 19 demands.
The Samaj expressed grave concern that though a decade has gone since the riot took place, yet the victim families are not in peace.
It demanded compensation in line with the Muzaffarnagar violence case, special schools in each block for the minority students, abolition of President order of 1950 and conversation law, FRA benefit for the minority Christians, action over 315 cases as per order of the Supreme Court, acquittal of seven persons who were branded as Maoists and put up in jail as assassins of Swami laxmanananda Saraswati, besides making public the Mahapatra and Naidu Commissions’ reports, among others.
Former bureaucrat Aruna Ray, social activist Md Salim, rights activist P Dibakar and PCC president Niranjan Patnaik were present.