Bhubaneswar, Feb. 6 -- Congress Legislature party leader Nurshingha Mishra on Tuesday staged a dharna inside the well of the Odisha Assembly over the Vedant University land acquisition issue.
Mishra sat on the well of the house during the Zero Hour seeking a ruling from Speaker Pramila Mallick on his demand for the return of land acquired for Vedant University, a vigilance probe into the land acquisition and criminal proceedings against the officials involved in the illegal land acquisition.
Raising the issue during the Zero hour, Mishra alleged that despite Orissa High Court and Supreme Court orders declaring the land acquisition for Vedant University as illegal, the state government is not returning the acquired land to nearly 6000 farm...