Summary:
The road in front of Utkal Mandap and near 120 Infantry Battalion were closed by the police to control the BJP youth wing protestors.DCP Anup Kumar Sahoo said 50 platoons of police force were deployed in the city to control the anti-liquor activists and BJP youth wing members. BHUBANESWAR: Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), youth wing of BJP, and anti-liquor activists scuffled with the police at different places in the city during their protest on Thursday. Security has been beefed up around the state assembly to stop the protestors. We will also arrest BJP youth workers for attacking an agitating gram rakhi at Lower PMG,” he added.BJP MLA Rabi Naik staged protest inside the state assembly opposing police excess on agitating BJYM workers during the protest rally. Around 300 persons from anti-liquor movement and 500 from BJP youth wing have been detained by the police, he added.“We have arrested 17 anti-liquor activists for manhandling police personnel and disrupting traffic by blocking NH 16 at Satsang Vihar..