Bhubaneswar: Senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and the party’s star campaigner for the upcoming Nuapada by-election , Pritiranjan Gharai, has written to the Election Commission of India (ECI), demanding an immediate and impartial inquiry by a neutral agency into the recent alleged unlawful raid by local police at his rented accommodation on Khariar Road in Nuapada district.

The former minister, in his letter, which was made public on Wednesday, urged the ECI to take stringent action against the “violators of law” before the Nuapada bypoll scheduled to be held on November 11.

“On October 31, while I was engaged in the election campaign at Mota Nuapada Gram Panchayat under Nuapada Block and absent from the residence, at about 13.22 p.m., a group of police personnel unlawfully entere

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