Before the 2019 LS polls, half a dozen Congress candidates pulled out after the party officially announced their names, damaging its chances even before the contest began.
Muktikanta Biswal, a social activist from Rourkela in Odisha, climbed atop an advertisement hoarding at the Sishu Bhawan square in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday to stage a protest.Biswal even threatened to end his life after being denied permission .
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A traditional idol maker from Rourkela who has bicycled 1,400km to Delhi to join the farmers’ protest is making a clay tableau at the Ghazipur border to portray how the new farm laws would lead to the farmers’ exploitation.
“The three clay models (that form the tableau) are being painted. They will be on public display at the Ghazipur border from Monday,” Muktikanta Biswal, 32, who is camping at the site, told The Telegraph over the phone.
Biswal, who follows his family profession of making clay idols of deities such as Ganesh and Saraswati, said he was hurt by the government’s treatment of the farmers and decided he could best protest through his art.