Former Secretariat employees held a condolence meeting here on Tuesday for Ambedkar ideology protagonist and employee leader late Nityananda Jena under the chairmanship Sachidananda Paricha.
Jena had superannuated as Joint Secretary of the Housing and Urban Development Department. Former Union Minister Bhajaman Behera, former MLA Radhakant Sethi, Samajwadi Party State president Rabi Behera, Rajesh Jena, Prasanta Mallick, former Secretariat employees Arjun Samantray, Madhusudan Yadav, Banshidhar Parida and Madhavnanda Das and many others paid floral tributes at his picture and remembered Jena. A two-minute silence was also observed.
