Bhubaneswar, Oct. 27: The ruling BJD leadership today warned its party workers against attending rebel leader Pyarimohan Mohapatra’s proposed “Kranti Samavesh” rally scheduled to be held here tomorrow.

Panchayati raj minister and senior BJD leader Kalpataru Das said: “Mohapatra’s Odisha Jan Morcha is not any way linked to the BJD. His rally is, therefore, an unconstitutional one and has no legal sanctity. As he is working as an agent of Congress, we have asked our party workers not to attend the rally.”

On the other hand, Mohapatra reiterated his allegation that the ruling party leaders were intimidating people by telling them not to attend tomorrow's rally.

The BJD leadership has also mounted pressure on Mohapatra asking him to resign immediately from Rajya Sabha. To exert pressure on Mohapatra, the party’s women’s wing today staged a demonstration and gheraoed Mohapatra’s newly floated Odisha Jan Morcha office here.

“Mohapatra has lost confidence of the BJD supremo and chief minister Naveen Patnaik. He should step down immediately,” said senior BJD women’s wing leader Namita Panda. The party’s students’ wing also staged a rally and burnt the effigy of Mohapatra in Cuttack.

However, Mohapatra made it clear that he was not going to step down from Rajya Sabha. “I am still in the BJD. Why should I resign?” he quipped. The party has already suspended Mohapatra after his failed coup attempt against Naveen on May 29.

In a related development, a few goons last night ransacked Mohapatra's car, which was parked at his Saheed Nagar residence. “Around 11.45pm, my wife had heard a loud bang. But we did not take it seriously. In the morning, we saw the car’s windscreen broken,” said Mohapatra adding that he had a strong suspicion that this had happened at the behest of the chief minister

“Naveen has left for Delhi deliberately so that no one can blame him for such heinous activities,” he said.

However, panchayati raj minister Das dismissed the allegations made by Mohapatra against the chief minister as “false and baseless”.

'He (Mohapatra) probably created the mischief himself to generate public sympathy. He knows that tomorrow’s rally will turn out to be a damp squib,” said Das.

Odisha Jan Morcha spokesperson Yagneswar Babu said: “All these misdeeds done at the instance of the BJD leaders will certainly help in the success of our rally tomorrow. We want to establish inner democracy in the BJD. So, they are scared.”

To show solidarity with the party’s leadership, BJD leaders across the state today burnt Mohapatra’s effigy at various places. Once a close associate of Mohapatra, BJD youth wing leader Rohit Pujari today organised a demonstration at Sambalpur and burnt his former mentor's effigy.

All the ministers sacked for their alleged support to Mohapatra's failed coup attempt against the chief minister have pledged their support to the BJD leadership. “Our leader is Naveen Patnaik. No one from Sundergarh will attend Mohapatra’s rally tomorrow,” said former minister and MLA from Rourkela, Sarada Prasad Nayak.

The police top brass today reviewed the law and order arrangements for tomorrow’s rally.