Shraddhanjali for martyrs of Maoist attack held

Bhubaneswar(Visakeo)Hundreds of activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Tuesday held a Sraddhanjali programme for the cops who fell prey to the Maoists' bullets in Nayagarh at the Nehru Park near Master Canteen Square here.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Amitabh Thakur paid floral tributes to the martyred security personnel. Among others, ABVP east zone organising secretary Bishnu Dash, city secretary Bhabani Shankar Mohapatra and programme convener Tatwadarshi Das attended the programme. Other than students, many police personnel and intellectuals paid their respects to the martyrs.

"Because we could not get the photographs of the police personnel who were killed by the Maoists, except that of Assistant Commandant of Special Operation Group (SOG) Pramod Satpathy, we managed the programme with a single photograph decked with flowers. We are trying to collect the photographs of all other police personnel, and in future will organise a mass Shraddhanjali programme," said ABVP city secretary Bhabani Shankar Mohapatra.