Two held for threatening Odisha BJP chief at gunpoint

Bhubaneswar | Monday | 20th November, 2017

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"We had been unsuccessfully trying to meet Basant Panda for past few days to put forth our grievances. Their hooliganism in broad daylight exhibits lawless in the state," Basant told media persons. BHUBANESWAR: Panic gripped BJP 's state headquarters here on Monday after two gun-toting men, one of them an engineering student, stormed into the party state president Basant Panda 's chamber and threatened him at gunpoint. "We seized the firearms and checked that those were toy guns. This enraged us and we wielded the toy guns," Panda said.BJP disowned the accused, who belonged to Baranga area on city outskirts, as party workers..