Anti-Odia article sparks off protest

BHUBANESWAR: A day after lodging a police complaint against an English daily for carrying an anti-Odia article, Kalinga Sena activists on Friday burnt copies of the newspapers and shouted slogans against the reporter and the editor at Master Canteen Square here.
The article published on July 24 had claimed that the election of Pranab Mukherjee as the President upset Odias."We condemn the irresponsible journalism in a national daily. We will intensify our the protest unless action is taken against the reporter, the printer and the publisher of the newspaper," Kalinga Sena chief Hemant Rath said.
While the political outfit had lodged an FIR at Capital police station on Thursday, another socio-cultural outfit Odia Pua filed a separate complaint at Fatepur Beri police station in New Delhi, demanding action against the newspaper.
BJD vice-president Damodar Rout earlier said the ruling party was planning to move the Press Council of India against the reporter and the newspaper.
Meanwhile, a youth organization, Yuva Odisha, has served a legal notice on the editor-in-chief, owner, publisher and the columnist of the paper, demanding unconditional apology to the entire Odia community.