Stir against Vedanta's Orissa plant from June 16

Financial Express, May 16, 2007

BHUBANESWAR, MAY 15: Activists of the Green Kalahandi, an orgnisation led by Congress leader and former Union railway minister Bhakta Charan Das, will start a 'jail bharo' from June 16 protesting against the alumina refinery plant of Vedanta Resources. Activists will put up barricades and prevent the vehicles of Vedanta from enterting into Kalahandi district. The organisation has also threatened to launch an indefinite 'satyagraha'.
Das on Monday told reporters that Vedanta refinery would bring misery to farmers and destroy the ecology of Kalhandi, Bolangir, and Phulbani districts. He said Vedanta would not be allowed to operate its plant in the district.
The Green Kalahandi has the support of the Opposition parties in the state. Das, who addressed the press conference along with state Congress president Jayadev Jena, CPI (M) state secretariat member Santosh Das and CPI assistant secretary Ashish Kanungo, demanded a CBI inquiry into the deal alleging that there was an unholy alliance between VAL chief Anil Agarwal and chief minister Naveen Patnaik.