Odisha BJP Delegates Take Up Panchayat Polls Issue With Andhra Officials In Border Village

Bhubaneswar: A delegation of Odisha BJP on Friday visited the villages on the state’s border with Andhra Pradesh to dissuade the people from participating in the panchayat elections conducted by the neighbouring state.

After visiting Kotia panchayat in Koraput district, the delegation comprising the Leader of Opposition Pradipta Naik, BJP’s state president Sameer Mohanty and MLA K Narayan Rao went to Manikpatna village under Gangabada oanchayat in Gajapati district.

On finding some officials of Andhra government interacting with the locals on the panchayat elections, the members of the BJP delegation questioned them and asked to show the joint survey map. The officials neither could answer their questions nor show the map and left the place.