BJD Executive Body Meet: Leaders Demand Fair Deal For Odisha From Centre

Bhubaneswar: Continuing the Centre’s anti-Odisha diatribe of the party president Naveen Patnaik, BJD leaders on Sunday demanded a fair deal for the state for all-round growth. Naveen had urged the party works to wage a relentless fight against the Centre’s injustice to the state at the executive meeting of Biju Yuva Janata Dal two days back.

Speaking at the executive body meeting of BJD at the party headquarters here, the party leaders said Odisha has been deprived of its deserving demands by the Centre like special category state status. They said the party would continue to fight for the cause of Odisha.

“The party’s basic interest is to protect the interest of the people of Odisha. We have pledged to fight against attempts from any quarters to disrupt the federal structure and development of the state”, said BJD vice vice-president Prasanna Acharya.

Speaking to mediapersons after the meeting, senior BJD leader Debi Prasad Mishra said the party has enrolled as many as 1,09,80,000 members since its inception.

The party passed the following resolutions at the meeting:

—Demand for to provide minimum support price (MSP) to the farmers as per the recommendation of the Swaminathan Committee
—Demand for special category status to Odisha
—Empowerment of women
—33 per cent reservation for women in the State Assembly and Parliament.
—Preservation of culture and heritage of Odisha
—Demand for to accord classic status to Odissi dance.
—Native villages of the luminaries to be taken up as Adarsh Village
—Creation of corpus fund for the party workers.
—To take up the party’s manifesto for the SC, ST and minority communities as the government agenda.