Parties hit streets, demand justice

Bhubaneswar: As the 20-year-old college student fights for her life in AIIMS Bhubaneswar, political tensions in the state reached a boiling point, with Opposition parties staging demonstrations and holding press conferences.

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Alleging that women are not safe in BJP-ruled Odisha, both the Opposition BJD and Congress held multiple demonstrations in Bhubaneswar and Balasore. Mahila Congress state president Meenakshi Bahinipati, along with party MLA Sofia Firdous, held a press conference in Delhi to highlight the issue of women's safety at the national level.

In Odisha, Congress Legislature Party leader Rama Chandra Kadam along with former Union minister Srikant Jena and others held a press conference here demanding a judicial inquiry into the circumstances leading to the second-year Integrated BED woman student allegedly being denied justice and subsequently attempting suicide by setting herself on fire. “We have been raising the issue of women safety since a long time. See what is happening in the state. Girls are not safe on campus,” Kadam said.