Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday lashed out at the Odisha government while accusing the ruling-BJD of being insensitive to the problems of farmers in regards to the paddy procurement in the State.
Addressing a presser, State BJP general secretary Lekhashree Samantsinghar said farmers are facing a lot of problems during the paddy procurement and even though they are staging protests across the State, Odisha government is silent and not worried about them.
She further said that the party workers and farmers from 35 Assembly seats and two Parliamentary constituencies of Boudh district will stage a protest and gherao the RDC office in Sambalpur tomorrow (January 21).
Around 40,000 BJP workers and farmers along with the State BJP chief Samir Mohanty and five BJP MPs from western Odisha will take part in the protest, said Samantsinghar.
Meanwhile, BJD…