Leaders of a host of opposition political parties met here in protest against the restrictions imposed by the State Government for holding meetings and rallies etc against various failure of the Government on the plea of coronavirus pandemic in the State.
They too slammed the Government for lodging police cases against five political and social organisation for holding a protest in a democratic way in the city on July 4.
“Opposition parties have the rights to raise people’s problems ghrough protests, rallies and demonstrations and work to get them resolved. Depriving them of their rights is very democratic,” said the leaders.
They demanded that cases filed against political parties and social organisation should be withdrawn forthwith.
The leaders decided to meet Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and hold discussion on the matter. For this, time and place of meeting has been sought from the Chief Minister through a letter.
On the occasion, they alleged that both the Union Government and the State Government have adopted anti-people ordinances, policies and steps to suit them, taking advantage of the Covid lockdown.
Leaders belonging to Congress, CPI, CPI (M), CPI-ML (Liberation), Forward Bloc, Samajwadi Party, RJD and CPI-ML (Redstar) and Aam Aadmi Party participated.
Among others, Dr Rama Chandra Khuntia, Alikishore Patnaik, Ashish Kanungo, Panchanan Kanungo, Janardan Pati, Yudhisthir Mohapatra, Sudarshan Pradhan, Jyotiranjan Mohapatra, Hemant Kumar, Pramila, Sudarshan Das, Suresh Panigrahi, Mahendra Parida, Jnanadeb Beura, Bipin Das and Subal Sahoo were present.