Social stigmas halt nation's progress, says PCC chief

Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Niranjan Patnaik on Sunday said as long as social stigmas are there in the society, the country can not progress and urged people from all walks of life to work shoulder to shoulder irrespective of caste creed and religion for sustainable development of the society. 

Patnaik was speaking at a seminar organsied at the party office to mark the 122nd birth anniversary of father of Indian constitution Dr BR Ambedkar.

Many senior party leaders including Raghunath Seth, Anant Prasad Sethi, Anadi Charan Das, Suresh Kumar Routray, Haldhar Sethi, Batakrushna Tripathy and Sarat Kumar Kar paid floral tributes to Ambedkar. Earlier, party leaders like Sibananda Ray and Gurupada Nanda led by Patnaik garlanded Dr Ambedkar's statue at the AG Square to mark the occasion. Organised by SC wing of the State Congress, the seminar was attended by several Dalit people.