In at least 18 Assembly seats, BJD has replaced sitting MLAs or senior leaders with their wives or children, with party insiders saying that sidelining them completely might have led to some of them defecting to BJP
Sundargarh District Congress Committee vice president and erstwhile MLA candidate of Raghunathpali Assembly constituency Prasant Sethi resigned from the party’s primary membership.
Submitting his resignation to the PCC president, Sethi mentioned that due to certain personal reasons he was