BHUBANESWAR: Around 300 activists of Kalahandi Individual Satyagraha, a wing of India Against Corruption, showed black flags at the Odisha Jan Morcha (OJM) congregation organized by Pyari Mohan Mohapatra inBhawanipatna on Monday. They were, however, arrested by police.
The activists were protesting against shifting of central university to Koraput. They alleged that it was because of Pyari the university couldn't be established in Kalahandi.
Police said 48 activists were arrested for showing the black flag. "To avoid law and order situation, they were arrested and taken to the reserve police barrack. We seized the black flags too," said S K Nanda, IIC of town police station.
The outfit president, Chinmaya Behera alleged that the central university was proposed to be set up in Kalahandi district but Pyari sabotaged the process. "We launched the protest in OJM rally because Pyari was the man who turned down the proposal to set up the university in Kalahandi when chief minister Naveen Patnaik had already agreed to it. We had drawn up a prelimnary plan for the university like Oxford and we had also identified 880 acres of land. This is an injustice to the people of Kalahandi," rued Behera. Pyari won't be allowed to enter Kalahandi in the future, he added.
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