On the first day of the second leg of Odisha Assembly session, Samajwadi Party workers took out a rally from Master Canteen Square to lower PMG with empty pots on head demanding safe drinking water for all and submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
They appealed all the legislators to provide drinking water in the rural area.
Samajwadi Party State president Rabi Behera demanded that the unspent MP lAD and MlA lAD funds should be spent for drinking water projects, renovation of ponds and wells, repairing of tubewells and other water bodies.
The party also demanded constitution of a Drinking Water Authority to regulate drinking water for all.
Behera questioned the rain water harvesting structure in the capital city which took place three years back.
Besides, he demanded a massive plantation programme in the State to counter climate change and water crisis. Among others, Sudarshan Pradhan, Bijaya Behera, Anjusa Das, Kalpana Barala and youth leader Subrat lenka and Pradeep Mishra led the rally.