In a significant development in the long-standing Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border dispute, people from different parts of Koraput district converged in Kotia gram panchayat on Wednesday to protest Andhra Pradesh’s decision to conduct local body elections in the disputed border region on Nov 5. Bhubaneswar: Amid escalating tensions over the disputed Kotia region in Odisha’s Koraput district, Leader of Opposition (LoP) and BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday wrote another letter.