BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik Tuesday claimed that the people of Odisha were not feeling safe during the ongoing festive season due to multiple incidents and accused the BJP government of completely failing to maintain the law and order in the state.

Patnaik, the leader of opposition in the state assembly, highlighted incidents of violence in Cuttack during Durga idol immersion, killing of a prominent lawyer in Berhampur on the day of Lakshmi Puja, rape of a woman in Rourkela and hooliganism in a bus in Puri district in the last two-three days.

“People are feeling unsafe amid the festive atmosphere in the state,” Patnaik said in a social media post.

He also condoled the death of lawyer Pitabas Panda, who was also a BJP leader, in Berhampur Monday night.

He said the killing of Panda, who w

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