Berhampur (Orissa), May 20: A high alert was sounded by the police in three south Orissa districts today in the wake of a 12-hour bandh call given by Maoists tomorrow to protest police action in Kalinga Nagar and Balitutha near Posco’s proposed project site at Paradip.
The Vansadhara Divisional Committee (VDC) of the banned CPI (Maoists) has called for the bandh in Gajapati, Kandhamal and Rayagada districts from 6 am tomorow.
Leaflets circulated in several places of Kandhmal district criticised recent police operations in Kalinga Nagar industrial complex in Jajpur district and at Balitutha, the entry point to Posco’s proposed project site near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district, police said.
These incidents had exposed the kind of state repression, when the villagers oppose the establishment of industry in their lands, the leaflets signed by Azad, secretary of the leftwing ultras VDC said.
–Agencies