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BJP promises to improve law & order in Orissa

Prafulla Das

BHUBANESWAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party will improve law and order and ensure the security of people, said its manifesto for Orissa. The party has, however, fielded a sangh parivar leader, Manoj Pradhan, who is now in jail for his alleged involvement in at least half-a-dozen murder cases during the recent anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal district.

The Assembly constituency he is contesting in, G. Udayagiri, reserved for the Scheduled Tribes, is in Kandhamal district. In the 2004 Assembly elections, he contested there as Independent and secured about 15,000 votes. Then the Biju Janata Dal, as a BJP ally, was in the fray in the constituency.

Now the BJP has also fielded Ashok Sahu, who recently resigned as president of the Orissa unit of the Hindu Jagran Manch, in the Kandhamal Lok Sabha constituency. Mr. Sahu, who hails from Cuttack, alleged that church leaders were behind the murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Lakshmanananda Saraswati.

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