The Utkal Sammilani, Mancheswar-Silpanchal branch, observed the death anniversary of Kanta Kabi Laxmikanta Mohapatra and garlanded the poet’s statue. A meeting on the occasion was presided over by branch president Dillip Dashsharma.
Laxmikanta’s son and former Utkal Prasanga editor Gurukalayan Mohapatra lamented that the memorial lecture held at Fakir Mohan University every year on the death anniversary of the poet had been stopped.
Among others, scribe Prabhukalayan Mohapatra, Sita Ballav Mohapatra, Parsuram Dwivedi, Mahabhav Mohapatra, branch advisors Niranjan Dash and Nimai Das, secretary Gobinda Chandra Subudhi, joint secretaries Ashok Kumar Paltasingh and Sidhartha Sankar Gadanayak, Basanti Tripathy, Maheswar Biswal, Prassana Rath, Siba Prasad Mishra, Khertra Mohan Nayak, Akshaya Jethi and Prakash Kumar Samal were present.