Bhubaneswar: Former Congress leader ad Jharsuguda MLA Naba Kishore Das resigned from the membership of Odisha Assembly on Monday. He met Odisha Assembly Speaker PK Amat and submitted his resignation letter to him this morning.
With this move, the number of Congress MLAs has come down to 13 in the 147-member Odisha Assembly.
Das, the two-time MLA of Jharsuguda, joined ruling BJD on January 24 at a programme in Jharsuguda attended by BJD President and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Das was the working president of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) and considered as the face of the grand old party in western Odisha. He quit the party on January 16.
Earlier, Sundargarh MLA Jogesh Singh and Koraput MLA Krushna Chandra Sagaria had quit the membership of the State Assembly. Both the leaders were expelled from the Congress for their antiparty activities.
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