Odisha’s main opposition party, Bjiu Janata Dal, Thursday launched a month-long state-wide ‘Jan Sampark Padayatra’ to “make people aware” of the alleged failures of the state’s BJP government.

The regional party’s annual foot march, which usually starts on Gandhi Jayanti every year, was this year delayed due to Dussehra, BJD’s senior vice-president Debi Prasad Mishra said.

The programme will cover all the 147 assembly constituencies and 314 blocks of Odisha before culminating November 9, Mishra said.

Before launching the foot march, BJD senior leaders garlanded the statues of ‘Panch Sakha’ at Sakhigopal in Puri district. The ‘Pancha Sakha’ or five friends are 16th-century poet-saints — Achyutananda Das, Ananta Das, Jasovanta Das, Jagannatha Das, and Balarama Das — who have deeply influe

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