Opposition Activists Lock Up Odisha Minister In Bungalow During Bandh
NDTV
BJP and Congress had separately called the 12-hour Kuchinda bandh after the president of the Kuchinda Youth Congress unit, Jayant Kishan was beaten up mercilessly by a group of people allegedly members of BJD on Tuesday.
Opposition Congress and BJP workers gheraoed Odisha Women and Child Development Minister Tukuni Sahu and kept her confined for hours in a government bungalow at Kuchinda township in Sambalpur on Wednesday during a 12-hour shutdown by the two parties against the attack on their workers by allege ruling BJD activists during a visit by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Ms Sahu was in Kuchinda to distribute smart health cards under Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana, which was launched in the district by Patnaik on Tuesday.
The opposition parties workers rushed to the bungalow when the minister was chairing a meeting of officers there before attending a programme to distribute smart health cards and locked the main gate forcing her to be confined there, the police said.
They raised slogans against the government for Tuesday's attack by BJD workers on Congress and BJP activists who were demonstrating during the chief minister's visit to press their demand for the removal of Minister of State for Home DS Mishra in the Kalahandi woman teacher kidnap and murder case.
