BJD Suffers Another Blow as Rajya Sabha Member Debashish Samantaray Resigns, Likely to Join BJP
मुख्य बातें
- •Debashish Samantaray, BJD Rajya Sabha member, resigns from the primary membership of the party citing being "systematically belittled".
- •Samantaray's resignation reduces BJD's strength in the Rajya Sabha to five.
- •He is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), marking the third high-profile defection from the BJD to the BJP.
- •The development deals a significant blow to the BJD's presence in the Upper House of Parliament.
- •The BJD faces an uphill task to regain its lost ground and take on the challenge posed by the BJP and other opposition parties in Odisha.
In a significant development, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Rajya Sabha member Debashish Samantaray resigned from the primary membership of the party on Monday. This move is expected to further weaken the party's presence in the Upper House of Parliament. Samantaray's resignation comes after he allegedly felt "systematically belittled" within the party. In his resignation letter addressed to BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Samantaray expressed his feelings of being undervalued and unappreciated, stating that he had taken the "hard decision" to quit in the interest of the public.
