The Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Odisha's largest opposition party, will hold a six-hour protest in Puri on August 7 over the death of a 15-year-old girl who was allegedly set on fire by unidentified miscreants in Balanga, party leader Lenin Mohanty told ANI.
Expressing grief over the death of the 15-year-old girl who was allegedly set on fire by miscreants in Balanga, Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida on Monday expressed deep anguish over the incident, saying no price or position could ever bring the girl back, and urged people to stop
Meanwhile, the mortal remains of a 15-year-old girl who was allegedly set on fire by miscreants on July 19 in Balanga from Puri district, arrived in Odisha on Sunday evening.
Victim succumbed to burn injuries on Saturday while undergoing treatment at AIIMS in the national capital, after she was allegedly set on fire by miscreants in the Balanga area of Odisha's Puri district on July 19.
Odisha Deputy Chief Minister KV Singh Deo on Sunday asked the Opposition not to politicise the case of the 15-year-old girl who succumbed to her injuries after being set on fire by miscreants.
The brother of the minor girl who succumbed to injuries after being set on fire by miscreants expressed grief over her demise and said that she was "fine" till Saturday morning.
Post-mortem of the dead body of the 15-year-old girl who succumbed to her injuries after she was set on fire by miscreants in Odisha will be conducted in AIIMS Trauma Centre in Delhi on Sunday.
The father of the 15-year-old girl from Odisha who succumbed to her burn injuries said that he does not want to blame anyone and requested that his family be kept away from politics.
BJD MP Subhashish Khuntia has slammed the BJP government in Odisha for failing to arrest the miscreants who set on fire a 15-year-old girl in Puri, who died on Saturday while undergoing treatment at AIIMS New Delhi.
BJD MP Sasmit Patra flagged the law and order situation in Odisha and demanded justice for the 15-year-old girl who succumbed to her injuries after being set on fire by miscreants in Balanga, Odisha.
The uncle of the minor victim who succumbed to her injuries after she was set on fire by miscreants in Odisha expressed grief and said everyone is disheartened.
Odisha Congress chief Bhakta Charan Das expressed deep grief over the death of a 15-year-old girl who succumbed to her injuries on Saturday while undergoing treatment at AIIMS New Delhi. The girl had been critically injured after being allegedly set on fire by miscreants in the Balanga area