Nabarangpur:
People from all walks of
life today paid glowing tributes to the former MLA Jagabandhu Majhi on the seventh
death anniversary here at Raighar on Sunday.
In a meeting organised at
the stadium ST and SC development minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi, DPC Chairperson
and Nabarangpur MLA Manohar Randhari,Assembly Estimate Committee Chairperson Sanjaya Das Burma,Umerkote MLA Subas Gond, Zilla Parisad
Chairperson Bhagabati Bhatra, district BJD president Prahalad Tripathy, General
Secretary Asis Ranjan Patnaik, and several party members paid rich tributes to
former MLA.
Umerkote MLS Subash Gond,
thanked the people for sharing their grief to Majhi, The MLA said that he was
following Majhi’s footstep to serve the people of Umerkote assembly segment
with the same zeal and dedication.
The wheel chair bound MLA
Majhi from Umerkote assembly seat of the district, and his PSO Prasant Patro
were shot at point blank range by three assailants when he was distributing
land pattas to landless tribals at Gona
village under Raighar block. In 2004 Majhi was shot in the waist by
assailants, which paralysed his legs making him wheel chair bound since then.
Senior congress leader and
former district congress president Narayana Patro, joined BJD at the meeting. Tributes
also paid martyr PSO Prasant Patro, at Kodinga.
