Subhas Chandra Pattanayak in Sympathy Fast

A.K.Mohapatra

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Chief of orissamatters.com that has always acted the most alert and strongest sentinel of Oriya interest, Sri Subhas Chandra Pattanayak, advisor of Oriya Bhasha Sangram Samiti, has given a new twist to the fast-on-to-death taken up by poet Gajanan Mishra with Ms.Madhumita Samal and Sanjib Parida, by offering sympathy fast for 12 hours. The trend he has set shall be followed up by language activists everyday till end of the fast by Sri Mishra and his two co-strikers.

The movement has been wholeheartedly supported by the founder chief of Ama Odisha Sri Soumya Ranjan Patnaik in a front-page signed leader in Orissa’s highest circulated broadsheet daily ‘The Sambada’ of which he is also the founder and Editor.

Sambad editorial on Gajanan's fast