Kendrapada: Former Rajnagar MLA Ansuman Mohanty resigned from Congress on Wednesday. He is likely to join BJD.
“In a couple of days, I will decide what is to be done ahead. I have worked for the Congress for more than a decade but I am now looking for better options to serve the people,” Mohanty (41) said.
Ansuman was elected from Rajnagar assembly seat in Kendrapada district on a Congress ticket by defeating BJD candidate Dhruba Charan Sahoo in 2014.But in 2019, BJD nominee Sahoo defeated Mohanty.
Ansuman’s father, Nalinikanta Mohanty, was a popular leader and won from Rajnagar six times consecutively from 1977 to 2004 as Janata Party, Janata Dal, BJD and Congress nominees.
Nalinikanta tasted defeat for the first time in 2009 when BJD candidate Alekha Jena defeated him. Nalinikanta died in 2012 at the age of 63.
Senior Congress leader and former minister Ganeswar Behera said, “The exit of Ansuman from Congress is a blow to our party on the eve of elections. But the Congress will soon fill the void.”
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“In a couple of days, I will decide what is to be done ahead. I have worked for the Congress for more than a decade but I am now looking for better options to serve the people,” Mohanty (41) said.
Ansuman was elected from Rajnagar assembly seat in Kendrapada district on a Congress ticket by defeating BJD candidate Dhruba Charan Sahoo in 2014.But in 2019, BJD nominee Sahoo defeated Mohanty.
Ansuman’s father, Nalinikanta Mohanty, was a popular leader and won from Rajnagar six times consecutively from 1977 to 2004 as Janata Party, Janata Dal, BJD and Congress nominees.
Nalinikanta tasted defeat for the first time in 2009 when BJD candidate Alekha Jena defeated him. Nalinikanta died in 2012 at the age of 63.
Senior Congress leader and former minister Ganeswar Behera said, “The exit of Ansuman from Congress is a blow to our party on the eve of elections. But the Congress will soon fill the void.”
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