Bhubaneswar, Feb. 9 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday held a protest march at Balugaon in Khordha alleging the Odisha government of hijacking the PDS rice sent by the Centre to get undue political benefit.

As per reports, the logos of 5T and Ama Odisha Nabin Odisha were found printed on bags in which the PDS rice is being distributed to beneficiaries.

To press their point, BJP members took out a protest march at Balugaon and burnt bags with those logos in front of a PDS dealer point at the NAC.

The saffron party alleged that the Biju Janata Dal (BJD)-led Odisha government is doing politics over Centre-provided PDS rice.

Speaking about their protest, BJP's Prithviraj Harichandan said, "This hijacking should be stopped right...