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The assault passed off throughout a public listening to session, held between 12.30 pm and 1 pm, when a bunch of people stormed into Sahu’s official chamber, forcibly dragged him outdoors, and bodily attacked him in entrance of shocked onlookers.
Disturbing video footage of the assault, which surfaced quickly after the incident, captured the assailants manhandling, slapping, and kicking the senior bureaucrat throughout the BMC premises. The visuals additionally present one other corporator and the non-public safety officer (PSO) of Bhubaneswar Mayor Sulochana Das desperately making an attempt to defend Sahu from the violent mob.
Based on opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leaders, the attackers have been allegedly supporters of native Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) chief Jagannath Pradhan. The town police arrested three people later within the night after BJD corporators staged a street blockade in protest, disrupting vehicular motion on the busy Vani Vihar and Grasp Canteen squares within the coronary heart of the capital metropolis.
In a pointy response, Bhubaneswar Mayor Sulochana Das alleged that the attackers even tried to abduct the official after assaulting him. “It’s not simply an assault however a sinister try to terrorise the civic administration,” she mentioned.
The incident prompted rapid deployment of extra police forces on the BMC workplace to revive order and guarantee safety for the employees.
Strongly condemning the assault, BJD senior vice-president Sanjay Das Burma remarked, “The state has plunged into utter lawlessness underneath the BJP regime. When a senior officer is assaulted inside his chamber, it clearly indicators that odd residents will not be protected wherever.”
The stunning incident has triggered political uproar and raised critical considerations concerning the state of legislation and order in Odisha’s capital.
