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Hundreds
hold rally seeking Orissa collector's release
Thursday February 17, 2011 04:55:35 PM,
IANS
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Bhubaneswar: Residents
of Orissa's Malkangiri town observed a shutdown and held a massive
rally Thursday demanding the safe release of the district
collector abducted by Maoists rebels a day earlier.
Most of government offices, business establishments, schools,
colleges and other educational institutions remained closed,
Additional District Magistrate S.L. Seal told IANS.
Students and residents marched carrying placards, some of which
read "release our beloved collector", "we want safe release of our
beloved collector", he said.
Road traffic was also hit in the district headquarter town, he
said.
Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer R. Veenel Krishna was
kidnapped from the Chitrakonda area along with junior engineer
Pabitra Mohan Majhi by around six rebels Wednesday evening. Giving
a 48-hour ultimatum, Maoists have demanded a halt to combing
operations by the security forces for their release, police said
Thursday.
This is the first time the rebels have taken an IAS officer
hostage in the state. The abduction happened just two days before
Home minister P. Chidambaram has scheduled a video conferencing
with the district magistrates of 60 districts affected by Left
wing extremism.
Chidambaram was to hold the conference Friday to gauge the impact
of the Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for districts affected by
Maoist violence.
Krishna, 30, a native of Chanda Nagar, a suburb of Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh, joined the IAS in August 2005 after he graduated
from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
He had been posted in Malkangiri for 16 months. Pabitra Mohan
Majhi, a native of state capital Bhubaneswar joined as a junior
engineer in the district only four months ago.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said: "We are monitoring the
situation. I appeal for the release of the young collector of
Malkangiri who is known for his hard work for the poor and for
tribals."
Maoist rebels are active in more than half of Orissa's 30
districts. Malkangiri, 615 km from here, is considered a Maoist
stronghold.
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