Bhubaneswar / Coraput: Ahead of the Election of Panchayat here is likely to be held early next year, the fraction congress who was ridden on Odisha received a jolt with the President of the State Unit and former MP Nabarangpur, Pradeep Majhi, resigned from the party on Friday.
Majhi is the third leading leader to leave the ‘Grand Old’ party in the past month.
On October 20, the former Laxmipur Mla Kailash Kulesika joined the powerful BJD.
Chandrasekhar Majhi, former MLA Congress from Kotpad, transferred his loyalty to BJD on September 15.
Talk about Majhi, too, joining BBD is doing a round.
Speculation has been rampant for some time that Majhi will leave Congress.
In his resignation letter to the party while the party while Sonia Gandhi, Majhi wrote, “With respect and deep obedience, I want to beg the country with extreme sadness and pain so that I decided to resign from the main membership of the Congress.
The party has lost Credibility because some stubborn leaders hold important positions.
“He added,” However, I will do my job according to your ideology.
” Hour after the resignation of Majhi from the party, the Odisha Pradesh (OPCC) Congress Committee of President Niranjan Patnaik met Sonia in Delhi.
“I asked about his welfare and discussed the problem of the organization with him,” Niranjan tweeted.
At the resignation of Majhi, Niranjan said the first might have left a party with ambitions to achieve something on the other.
“He was given a post, responsibility, attention and respect that prominent in Congress.
Let’s see if he gets the same post and respects other parties,” Niranjan, who has faced rebellion and at the party since the screening in the 2019 election, said .
Jeypore MLA Congress and Majhi’s Bene Noire, Tara Prasad Bahinipati, said Majhi’s resignation would not affect the party.
“Majhi and his close advice, Kunesics, have been involved in anti-party activities.
Capturing disciplinary actions, they left the party.
It was good for a party that the rebels like that had gone,” he added.
Majhi, who has a considerable influence on tribes in the Nabarangpur and Malkangiri District, was elected to Lok Sabha on Congress tickets from Nabarangpur in 2009.
He lost elections in 2014 and 2019 to Balabhadra Majhi and Ramesh Majhi, respectively.