Nabarangpur:Basant Rath,Reporter.
The ruling BJD in
Nabarangpur staged a demonstration protesting against the Polavaram project in
Andhara Pradesh in front of the collectorate here on Tuesday. The party
submitted a memorandum to the President of India through the Additional
district Magistrate Laxmidhar Das.
Speaking on the occasion Commerce
and Transport minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi, who is also the president of the
district BJD said the Union Government’s support to Andhra Pradesh’s Polavaram
project, if the project materialised in its present design several villages of
Malkangiri district would be submerged and affect lakhs of people. The central government
has accorded national status to the project and decided to bear all expenses which
is against the intrest of Odisha, Majhi added.
Nabarangpur MP Balabhadra Majhi said while the
Polavaram case is currently sub-judice in the Supreme Court and SC has not yet
directed to the Centre to provide funds for construction work of the project
and the Centre would certainly respect observations of the court. The
rally and meeting led by Former Rajya Sabha Member Bhupendra Singh, while MLA’s
Manohar Randhari, Subash Gond, ZP President, Vice-Chairperson, chairman’s of
blocks, ZP and Samiti members with hundreds of party delegates present. Over
2000 party workers participated in the stir. 
