Kendrapara: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik will visit Kendrapara tomorrow to inaugurate a number of welfare schemes in the district. According to sources, the CM is scheduled to address public meetings at Mahakalpara, Rajnagar and Kendrapara College ground.
Kendrapara MP, Baijayant Panda along with the local MLAs will accompany the chief minister during his visit to the district.
All eyes are also set on his visit to Mahakalpara, the constituency of Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak who recently resigned from the post of Health Minister following the SUM Hospital fire mishap. CM Naveen Patnaik will be joined by both Baijayant Panda and Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak at the gathering at Mahakalpara.
Sources informed that palpable tension is already prevailing as supporters of the former Health minister are ready to protest against the local MP over the former’s resignation.
On the other hand, security has been beefed up in the district ahead of CM’s visit. As many as 24 platoons of police force will be deployed. The district collector also held a preparatory meeting ahead of Naveen’s visit.
“The CM will inaugurate the projects which have been completed and will lay the foundation stones of new projects which will be implemented in future. The police administration will be deploying 24 platoons police force,” said Kendrapara Collector Debaprasad Das.
“There was plan for a big gift to the Kendrapara citizens on the occasion of Diwali on October 29 but it was postponed to November 8 on account of a cyclonic storm warning. BJD supporters in the district are eagerly waiting for their leader to arrive here tomorrow,” said BJD’s Kendrapara district president, Dhruva Charan Sahu.