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| Revolt in BJD: Denied ticket, party |
| Revolt in BJD: Denied ticket, party leader quits
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| INDIA
, 3-April-2009
1:49:41 AM |
| The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) faced a mini revolt on Thursday night after the head of its Parliamentary Party and former union steel minister Braja Kishore Tripathy resigned from the party, protesting against party chief Naveen Patnaik's decision to drop him from the candidate list for the Lok Sabha polls.
Tripathy, who reportedly does not get along with Naveen's advisor Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, was expected to be renominated from Puri Lok Sabha constituency, which he has won for last three times in a row. But with Congress treasurer and former MP Pinaki Mishra joining the BJD, Naveen promptly nominated the Supreme Court lawyer for Puri seat over Tripathy. Pinaki is the second prominent Congressman after Orissa Youth Congress president Rohit Pujari to join the BJD.
The 62-year-old veteran leader quit the party along with Puri district BJD president Shankar Parida. "I have resigned as the chief of the BJD Parliamentary Party and also from the membership of the Lok Sabha. Though I was the chief of the Parliamentary Party, I was ignored while candidate selection for the Puri Lok Sabha constituency was on. The people of Orissa would give a befitting reply to the BJD's undeomocratic step," he said.
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