India, Aug. 25 -- Leaders of the INDIA bloc constituents took out a torchlight vigil and burnt effigies of Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and 20 BJP MPs from the state during a protest against the MMDR Bill.

Leaders of Congress, CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML) Liberation, Forward Bloc, NCP and SP assembled at the Master Canteen Square here on Monday and protested against the BJP lawmakers from Odisha for "remaining silent" during the recent passage of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill or MMDR Bill in Parliament.

Odisha's Steel and Mines Minister B B Jena, however, defended the BJP governments at the Centre and the state and accused the INDIA bloc leaders and the opposition BJD of "misleading" the people o...