Congress workers today staged a demonstration outside Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) office here demanding resignation of city Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena in connection with a sex video and death of an engineering student.
Shouting slogans against the Mayor, a large number of Congress workers who staged a sit-in near the BMC Office also demanded a CBI investigation into the the death of engineering student Asutosh Mohanty alias Rishi in May this year and the sex clip purportedly featuring Jena.
Claiming that the police failed to probe the matter due to pressure from the ruling party as the Mayor is a general secretary of BJD, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Prasad Harichandan said only a probe by CBI can unravel the truth.
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Congress would continue its agitation till the Mayor resigned, the PCC chief said adding that the there were allegations that the sex tape had links with Rishi's murder.
Stating that charges against the Mayor would never be probed by state police in a fair and impartial manner, Harichandan said it was amply clear that Jena, being an influential leader, was being shielded by the BJD Government.
The PCC chief hit out at the Naveen Patnaik government, accusing it of failing to deal with the case seriously and ensure prompt and time-bound probe by police.
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