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Exodus of BJD leaders continues

THE ASIAN AGE. | AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO
Published : Mar 16, 2019, 12:42 am IST
Updated : Mar 16, 2019, 12:42 am IST

Earlier on Thursday, sitting BJD MP Balabhadra Majhi had resigned from the primary membership of the party terming the BJD ‘undemocratic’.

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik
 Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik

Bhubaneswar: Causing a serious headache to the BJD president and Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik who is eying a straight fifth term in power, party’s Nilagiri MLA Sukanta Kumar Nayk resigned from the party on Friday.

Mr Nayak’s resignation comes a day after party’s Lok Sabha member from Nabarangpur, Balabhadra Majhi resigned citing that he was continuously neglected by the leadership.

While resigning from the primary membership of BJD, Mr Nayak alleged that a conspiracy against him had been hatched and it was exhibited during the joining ceremony of an Opposition party leader recently. Besides, the legislator accused the

Balasore district BJD president Rabindra Jena of mentally torturing him. “The mental torture meted out to me by the district BJD president has become unbearable. This hurt me a lot and so, I am tendering my resignation,” Mr Nayak said in his letter to the party president.

Earlier on Thursday, sitting BJD MP Balabhadra Majhi had resigned from the primary membership of the party terming the BJD ‘undemocratic’.

Sources said nearly a dozen of the 117 BJD MLAs and two-three MPs are planning to quit the party as they apprehend denial of party tickets to contest the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls scheduled to be held simultaneously in four-phases.

He also accused the party of conspiring against him by deliberately keeping him out of important party meetings since past several months. In his letter to the CM, the lawmaker alleged that a conspirator group had created a wedge between him and the party president Naveen Patnaik.

A number of BJD leaders have recently raised allegation of conspiracy against them some party workers under the instructions of a courtier posted in the Chief Minister’s Office to drive away all the senior party leaders from the party for vested interests.

Sources said nearly a dozen of the 117 BJD MLAs and two-three MPs are planning to quit the party as they apprehend denial of party tickets to contest the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls scheduled to be held simultaneously in four-phases.

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