Bhasha Andolan, Day 22: Prafulla Samantray, Bhubaneswar Bar Association join March
The Bhasha Andolan in Odisha, has entered Day 23 today, but the government remains apathetic to the demand of ‘Governance of Odisha in Odia Language’. There has been no responded to the movement till date.
On the 22nd day of Bhasha Andolan yesterday, Environmentalists and Social Activists Prafulla Samantray and Biswajit Mohanty, Columnist Natabar Khuntia and Er. Rajshekhar Laha participated in the ‘silent black flag march’. The Bhubaneswar Bar Association too joined the movement.
They started the march from Odisha Assembly and concluded it at Madhu Babu’s statue near Governor’s House Square. Several other members and supporters of Bhasha Andolan, including Subhas Chandra Pattanayak, Pradyumna Satpathy, Pabitra Maharatha, Tusarkanta Satpathy, Deba Prasad Das, Ashwini Kumar Swain, Tirtha Kumar Sahu, Rakesh Das, Sudhir Kumar Rout, Sumanta Patnaik, Biranchi Moharana, Subhas Chandra Pradhan, Sudarsan Dixit, Ashok Jagdev, Biyaj Samantray, Raj Sekhar Laha, Siba Prasad Patnaik, Kali Prasad Samantray, Bibekananda Das, Gurupadma Kar, Dibakar Balabantray, Baikunth Nayak and Bhakti Bhushan Mohapatra.