Bhubaneswar, Sept. 19 -- Puri: The Puri district unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today kicked off a signature campaign in the pilgrim town in connection with the alleged illegal plotting and sale of Bagala Dharmashala land.

The campaign was launched in each of the 32 wards in Puri and would be conducted aggressively on roads too. Following the signature campaign, the party members as decided will take out a padyatra from Puri Srimandir to Naveen Niwas (residence of Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik) in Bhubaneswar on Gandhi Jayanti, the 2nd of October, to demand scrapping of the sale deeds of the Dharmashala land.

"Despite staging a sit-in for over 27 days, the administration did not come to us for a discussion as they are adamant on se...