Members of the Kosal Kranti Dal (KKD) led by Pramod Mishra on Tuesday evening hoisted black flag before the Collectorate and tore the Odisha map as a mark of protest for ‘forcibly merging the Kosal area in Odisha’.
They demanded the Kosal area be bifurcated from Odisha and made a separate State.“Even since our area was merged with Odisha, our miseries have increased. One of the most mineral riches area is today facing problems of malnutrition, migration of labours, child selling and backwardness,” Mishra alleged.The Kosal Kranti Dal (KKD) activists together with members of Balangir Action Committee also staged dharna putting on black badges at the Collectorate.We have scaled down our activity in view of the general elections but we have not desisted from our demand, Mishra added.