By Express News Service
BHAWANIPATNA: An enormous safety blanket was thrown throughout Kalahandi district for Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s programme at Bhawanipatna amidst intensified protest by opposition political events over Mamita Meher homicide case.
Bhawanipatna city changed into a fortress as police stood guard at strategic places to forestall any untoward incidents with each Congress and BJP threatening to protest the CM’s occasion. Sources stated with a purpose to present their power, the ruling BJD moreover BJP and Congress roped of their employees from throughout the district for the programme. Batches of BJD employees and beneficiaries of Mission Shakti from neighbouring villages marched in procession in direction of the assembly venue of the CM. Police discovered it tough to regulate the site visitors as serpentine rallies descended on the roads.
Similarly, BJP and Congress employees in small teams gathered at strategic locations and waved black flags at Ministers who had been on method to the CM’s programme. There had been a number of situations of confrontation between BJD supporters and agitators because the ruling social gathering had mobilised numerous employees for the occasion. Tension prevailed close to Kalyan Mandap, Dayanidhi Chowk, Gandhi Chowk, Manikeswari High School Chowk and Circuit House as BJD employees had a face-off with the protestors.
In Kesinga, BJP and Congress employees pelted eggs at Agriculture Minister Arun Sahu over the Mamita Meher case. Women and Child Development Minister Tukuni Sahu additionally confronted comparable protests in Narla.The CM arrived on the Agriculture College floor at 11 am and distributed sensible well being playing cards to beneficiaries. After the CM’s assembly, an enrolment drive of BJD was held at Kalyan Mandap in Bhawanipatna the place many new members had been inducted into the ruling social gathering.
Ahead of Naveen’s go to, tight safety preparations had been put in place. As many as 25 platoons of police pressure had been deployed at strategic places in Bhawanipatna city. Around 100 employees of opposition events had been detained as a safety measure.
