Mahila Congress, the women’s wing of the Congress party, staged a protest at Bhubaneswar’s Lower PMG Wednesday over the “rising cases” of violence against women in the state.

Hundreds of women Congress workers from across the state gathered in the Lower PMG area, holding banners and placards, and raising anti-government slogans.

They accused the state government of failing to curb the rising atrocities against women, including cases of sexual abuse. The protesters also breached the barricades erected by the Commissionerate Police at the lower PMG. However, security personnel stopped the protesters as they attempted to march ahead in a rally to gherao the Odisha Assembly. Later, several Congress workers and leaders were picked up from the protesting spot and detained by the Commissionerat

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