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Bhubaneswar, Jan 8: The capital is flooded with large-size cutouts, banners and festoons Thursday put up for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah’s two-day visit to the city even a day after Shah left the city.
Enthusiastic BJP workers had put up posters and festoons on almost every electricity pole and tree on the median of the road leading to the airport, seemingly unconcerned that they were defacing the city.
Areas such as AG Square, Secretariat Road, Master C
anteen, Janpath and Kharvel Nagar were also full of cutouts and festoons put up by the party workers, which spoilt the look of the surroundings.
A Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said the BJP had not sought permission from it to put up flexes, cutouts and banners across the city. “We will examine if a notice can be issued to the party,” the civic body official said.
A former BJP councilor, on condition of anonymity, said political outfits continue to erect publicity material without seeking permission from the corporation though the BMC council has on several occasions passed resolutions against this practice.
“It is not the first time that cutouts of noted leaders have been put up across the city. Nobody raised a hue and cry when Rahul Gandhi’s banners and flexes were put by the Congress. There is not much the BMC can do when workers of political parties violate the rules,” he said.