{"id":196409,"date":"2026-03-10T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=196409"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:30:00","slug":"54-communal-riots-7-mob-lynching-incidents-reported-in-odisha-in-20-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/03\/10\/54-communal-riots-7-mob-lynching-incidents-reported-in-odisha-in-20-months.html","title":{"rendered":"54 communal riots, 7 mob lynching incidents reported in Odisha in 20 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-192940\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/bajrangdal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/bajrangdal.jpg 453w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/bajrangdal-358x220.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bhubaneswar: Fifty-four communal riots and seven mob lynching incidents were reported in the BJP-ruled state of Odisha in the past 20 months.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi revealed this in a written statement to the Assembly, citing data from June 2024 to February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said that 298 people were arrested in riot cases and 61 in lynching incidents during this period. The communal riots occurred in five districts:<br \/>\nBhadrak, Malkangiri, Balasore, Koraput, and Khurda, while mob lynching incidents were registered in Deogarh, Dhenkanal, Balasore, and Rayagada.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP government took office in Odisha on June 12, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar: Fifty-four communal riots and seven mob lynching incidents were reported in the BJP-ruled state of Odisha in the past 20 months. According to Kashmir Media Service, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi revealed this in a written statement to the Assembly, citing data from June 2024 to February 2026. The statement said that 298 people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/bajrangdal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196410,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196409\/revisions\/196410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}