BJD revokes expulsion of Damodar Rout with immediate effect
Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has revoked the expulsion of Damodar Rout with immediate effect, said reliable reports today.
Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has revoked the expulsion of Damodar Rout with immediate effect, said reliable reports today.
According to reports, he was expelled in September 2018. Later he joined BJP said reliable reports. He was a seven time MLA.
On December 22, 2017, Rout was removed as agriculture minister over a controversial statement about the Brahmin community. Then he was expelled from the party in 2018.
He had been a Minister in the Naveen Patnaik Cabinet in all the four terms from 2000. Since 1979 Rout had been in charge of more than 15 different departments during his long political innings after he became MLA for the first time in 1977.
Ms Kalinga