BJP Observes ‘Chakka Jam’ In Western Odisha Protesting Irregularities In Paddy Procurement | OTV News

BJP Observes Chakka Jam In Western Odisha Protesting Irregularities In Paddy Procurement

Sambalpur: Normal life in western Odisha disrupted because the State unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is observing three-hour ‘chakka jam’ within the area on Saturday protesting non-procurement of paddy and mandi points confronted by the farmers.
According to reviews, the protest began at 10 am and can proceed until 1 pm. Vehicular motion has been paralysed as BJP supporters have blocked nationwide highways, state highways and different routes underneath 5 Lok Sabha and 37 Assembly constituency limits in Western Odisha.
Security preparations have been tightened at numerous locations all through western Odisha to take care of any eventualities through the protest.
Earlier final month, the politics over paddy procurement in western Odisha had been intensified with opposition BJP organising a protest of hundreds of farmers in Sambalpur accusing the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) authorities of doing a shoddy job of paddy procurement.
At the congregation of farmers, BJP leaders had alleged that regardless of the Odisha authorities’s declare of document procurement within the present kharif advertising and marketing season hundreds of farmers haven’t been capable of promote their paddy to the federal government.
(Edited by Rashmi Ranjan Mohanty)