BHUBANESWAR: The agitation over Pipili gangrape demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is intensifying with political parties, women organisations, tribal and Dalit bodies holding demonstrations across the State. Around 13 non-BJD parties and mass organisations held a demonstration here on Saturday. Former Union ministers Braja Kishore Tripathy and Bhajaman Behera, president of the Samruddha Odisha Jatish Mohanty, president of the Odisha Communist Party Ajeya Rout, RJD State president Harish Mohapatra, leaders of several other parties and organisations took out a procession and submitted a memorandum, addressed to the President, to Governor MC Bhandare demanding a CBI probe. “We have submitted a memorandum to the President seeking her intervention,” said Bhajaman. The agitators, mostly women, shouted anti-Naveen slogans. They also demanded a special mechanism to deal with rape cases as the State has been witnessing about 1,000 such crimes every year. BJP national executive member Bijay Mohapatra pilloried Naveen for not visiting the Dalit victim being treated at SCB Medical College and Hospital despite being in Cuttack on Saturday.
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