Miscreants damage Pyari Mohapatra’s car

-- Biju Mahila Morcha burn effigy of Pyari in front of his party office

BHUBANESWAR: Some unidentified miscreants allegedly damaged Pyari Mohapatra’s vehicle parked in the entrance of his residence on Friday night. The backside glass of the car was damaged in the attack. The police have started investigating into the matter.

Following the attack on his vehicle, Mohapatra blamed Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Biju Janata Dal for damaging his car.

On the other hand, activists of the Biju Mahila Morcha (BMM) burnt effigy of Mohapatra in front of Odisha Jana Morcha’s city office here on Saturday demanding his resignation from Rajyasabha. More than one thousand women came in a procession started from Rupali square in the city and staged demonstration in front of the OJM’s city office here.

During the demonstration, the BMM condemned the anti-BJD statement of Mohapatra. “The person, who got the Rajyasabha ticket twice in 2004 and 2012 with the active support of Chief Minister Patnaik, makes false statement before media that Patnaik is not the president of the party which is a political farce and nothing else,” said the members of the BMM.

The leaders of the BMM alleged that the OJM is created for strengthening of the Congress party. The supporters of Biju babu know that Mohapatra’s rally would help corrupted Congress party, alleged the BMM members, adding, “The Biju supporters are always with BJD supremo Patnaik and they would never come to Mohapatra’s Mahasamabesh.”

The BMM leaders called upon the women of the State to not to join in the OJM’s October 28 rally. The women leaders like Biju Yuva Janata Dal vice-president Lopamudra Baxipatra, Biju Mahila Janata Dal’s Bhubaneswar District president Sanjukta Mohanty, State vice-president Minati Behera, former chairperson of State Women Commission Namita Panda and others took the lead of the demonstration.