Suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres set ablaze two road construction equipment at Kiamunda village under Phiringia Police Station limits in Kandhamal District of Odisha on February 8, in protest against conducting the three-tier Panchayat (village level local-self-Government institution) elections in the State, reports India Today. Police said the ultras, suspected to be members of the ‘Kalahandi-Kandhamal-Boudh-Nayagarh (KKBN) division’ of the banned CPI-Maoist, reached the construction site around midnight and torched the equipment. Some hand-written Maoist posters were also spotted at the scene, with an appeal to the villagers to boycott the ensuing Panchayat polls, withdrawal of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camps in the area and the district, and adequate payment of wages to labourers, P Shyamsundar Rao, the Inspector-in-Charge of Phiringia Police Station said.