Final Up to date: March 29, 2024, 15:15 IST
One chief give up Congress and two others left BJP. (Consultant Picture: PTI)
Two BJP leaders Nilgiri MLA Sukant Nayak and the occasion’s Cuttack district president Prakash Chandra Behera – additionally resigned from their occasion
Three-time Congress MLA and former minister Surendra Singh Bhoi resigned from the first membership of the occasion after 38 years and joined the ruling BJD on Friday.
Two BJP leaders Nilgiri MLA Sukant Nayak and the occasion’s Cuttack district president Prakash Chandra Behera – additionally resigned from their occasion and are prone to be a part of the BJD.
In a letter to AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, Surendra Singh Bhoi stated he has resigned from the publish of Bolangir district Congress committee (DCC) president in addition to the occasion. I urge to say right here that as a consequence of private causes I wish to resign from the first membership, and the publish of president DCC, Bolangir in addition to AICC membership. With nice honour, I thanks for giving me a possibility to serve the occasion and my state for 38 years with ardour, dedication and self-discipline, he stated within the letter. He joined the BJD at Sankha Bhawan, the headquarters of the ruling occasion.
BJP MLA Sukant Nayak additionally resigned from the occasion. In a letter to Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal, the Nilgiri MLA stated, I do hereby tender my resignation on right now (i.e 29.03.2024) from the first membership of Bharatiya Janata Get together.
The identical might please be accepted. Nayak was elected to the meeting in 2014 on BJD ticket from Nilgiri. He, nevertheless, converted to BJP in 2019 and in addition received the seat. He has now determined to return to the occasion from the place he began his electoral journey, BJD sources stated.
Former Chitrakonda MLA & BJD chief Dambaru Sisa additionally resigned from the first membership of the occasion on Thursday. In his letter to BJD president Naveen Patnaik, Sisa stated, My goal and goal stay the identical because it has all the time been from the very starting to serve the individuals of the state and the constituency.
I consider I’m unable to do that anymore on this occasion. So to satisfy the aspirations of my individuals and my employees, I consider it’s best to sit up for a contemporary begin. The event got here a day after Cuttack MP Bhatruhari Mahtab and ex-MP Siddharth Mohapatra joined BJP in Delhi on Thursday.
Mahtab had resigned from BJD on March 22. Lok Sabha and meeting elections will likely be held concurrently in Odisha in 4 phases between Might 13 and June 1.
