JAN AKROSH: SEPARATE CONG DEMOS IN B’NGIR
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The protest by members of the Balangir District
Congress against demonetization at two different places has brought the
factionalism in the unit to the fore.
While one group led by District Congress Committee
president Bhagaban Bagarti, Renuka Patra, Bidhu Bhushan Tripathy and others
staged a dharna before the collectroate, another group led by Samrendra Mishra,
son of Leader of Opposition (LoP) Narsingha Mishra, Biren Mishra, Laxman Meher,
Sudhir Parischha and Sudam Sahu staged a dharna before State Bank of India main
branch office.
“The demonetization move by the Central Government
has affected the common man the most. The AICC has given a call to observe Jan
Akrosh Divas. The AICC is observing it at Delhi and PCC is observing at State
level, while the DCC at district and block congress at block level,” said
Balangir DCC president Bagarti.
Asked to comment on another unit of Congress, Town
Congress unit led by Samrendra Mishra, Bagarti said the AICC has instructed to
observe the programme at all levels and there is nothing wrong with the stir by
the Town Congress as it is also a unit of the party. He, however, denied that
it was factionalism in the DCC.
“The Town Congress has received communication from
the PCC and we are staging protest dharna before the main branch of the SBI
against the demonetization by the Modi Government,” Mishra said, adding that
the dharna by the DCC was “just a coincidence”.
However, political observers here feel that there
are two factions in Balangir Congress. While one group backs LoP Mishra,
another backs former Congress MP from Balangir Sarat Pattnaik.
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