Bhubaneswar, Nov 4: The opposition BJP on Thursday called for a 12-hour bandh in Odisha’s Gajapati district on November 6 to protest the BJD government’s alleged inaction against Minister of State for Home DS Mishra, on whom the main accused was booked. accused of giving protection. In the case of kidnapping and murder of a female teacher last month. A leader said the youth wing of the saffron camp also decided to stage demonstrations with black flags at the places where Mishra would visit.
During the day, a group of BJP leaders led by party national vice-president Baijayant Panda, spokesperson Sambit Patra and MLA Jayant Sarangi organized a ceremony to light ‘diyas’ (earthen lamps) near the Sri Jagannath temple in Puri in memory of the woman teacher. participated in the programme. . The Congress also demanded verification of the call details of two of Mishra’s aides to ascertain the truth of the matter.
Addressing a press conference, BJP Yuva Morcha state president Irsish Acharya said, “Our workers will welcome Mishra with a black flag and such protests will continue till he resigns or is dismissed. . The party has called for a 12-hour bandh in Gajapati on November 6.” Senior Congress leader and former MP Bhakta Charan Das and party MLA S Saluja demanded that “records of phone calls of two of Mishra’s aides should be verified. in order to ascertain their involvement. “If”. A telephonic conversation between the main accused and the teacher’s family members indicated that the prime suspect had a close relationship with the minister. In the audio clip that went viral, he was heard assuring his family members that He will request the Minister of State for Home to expedite the search for the woman who went missing on October 8,” claimed a Congress leader.
The Congress on Wednesday alleged that several officials of the Odisha Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) were shielding Mishra. Das had said that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik would have sacked Mishra had he not been saved by some influential people in the CMO.
Describing Mishra as close to the main accused, the opposition parties are pressurizing Patnaik to sack him from the council of ministers. The 24-year-old teacher’s body was retrieved on October 19 from the playground of the school where she worked. In this connection, the main accused, including the chairman of the managing committee of a private school in Kalahandi district, have been arrested.
Police said the prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder case had enmity with the teacher as she knew about his two extramarital affairs and had warned that she would expose him.
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