Angul:9/11/17 Odisha Agriculture Minister Damodar Rout was today shown black flags by BJP women wing leaders when the minister was on the way to attend the district-level livestock fair at Baantala block in Angul district.
Over a dozen of women activists were taken into preventive custody as they started waving black flags at the minister as he alighted from his car.
The BJP women cadres were later released, police said.
The BJP women cadres were pretesting against the governmental inaction in protecting the interest of farmers and cases of farmers’ suicides due to crop failure.