PNS, BHAWANIPATNA
Demanding setting-up of the proposed rail wagon factory at Chapatakhanda of Narla block in Kalahandi district, mass protests began in all the blocks in the district here on Tuesday morning.
Activists under the banner of Block Congress Committee staged a dharna before the block offices in all the thirteen blocks voicing their ire against the State Government.
They pulled up Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for his alleged conspiracy in diverting the proposed Kalahandi rail wagon factory site to his home turf Ganjam for parochial political gains.
The Congress workers have begun their agitations here on Tuesday while their party MLA Gobardhan Das sat on a dharna in front of Mahatma Gandhi's statue within the premises of the State Assembly at Bhubaneswar on Monday after raising the topic in the Zero Hour before walking out of the House. Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee had reportedly assured Kalahandi MP Bhakta Das in Parliament recently that the proposed rail wagon factory would be set up here while the Chief Minister has recently written a request letter to Mamata for the proposed project in Ganjam instead.
Samaja, April 6, 2011
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