Former MLA Prafulla Majhi gets expelled from Congress after announcing his decision to join BJD
Former MLA Prafulla Majhi gets expelled from Congress after announcing his decision to join BJD
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Bhubaneswar: Deepak Mohapatra, the media coordinator for the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC), announced on Monday that former MLA Prafulla Majhi had been dismissed from the party for disorderly behaviour and anti-party activities.
On Sunday, the three-time former legislator told the media that he would join the ruling BJD in Bhubaneswar on December 10 in the presence of party leader Naveen Patnaik.
He resigned from the AICC on Monday, citing a sense of neglect and humiliation within the party in his letter to in-charge president Sonia Gandhi.
Majhi began his political career in 2006, when he was elected as the successor of his uncle-in-law Gajadhar Majhi to the Talsara Assembly Constituency in Sundargarh district. In the 2009 and 2014 elections, he was elected to the Odisha Assembly on the Congress platform.
In the 2019 Assembly elections, he was defeated by BJP candidate Bhabani Shankar Bhoi.
Majhi is the second Congress leader to switch to the Conch party ahead of the Panchayat votes, which are set to take place early next year.
Pradeep Majhi, a former Congress MP from Nabarangpur, joined the BJD on November 6, making him the third great old party leader from the undivided Koraput district to join the BJD. Chandrasekhar Majhi and Kailash Chandra Kulesika, both former MLAs, had previously joined the Naveen Patnaik-led party.
