Title - Deo’s suggestion on ECoR decried

Hundreds of activists of the ruling Biju Janata Dal on Thursday staged demonstrations to protest against Union Tribal Affairs Minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo’s suggestion for shifting the East Coast Railway headquarters from Bhubaneswar to Visakhapatnam.

Holding party flags and banners, the BJD workers held sit-in demonstrations at various railway stations in different parts of the State and raised slogans against Mr. Deo’s suggestion for shifting the headquarters of the East Coast Railway from Bhubaneswar to Visakhapatnam and shifting of the headquarters of South Eastern Railway from Kolkata to Bhubaneswar.

Alleging that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre had been adopting anti-Odisha measures, the BJD activists alleged that the headquarters of the East Coast railway was established in Bhubaneswar after a long struggle and they would oppose any move to shift the same

The ruling party has announced that similar demonstrations will be organised by the party workers at various railway stations in the State on Friday and Saturday.