Former Nabarangpur MP Pradeep Majhi quits Congress, may join BJD

KORAPUT: Former Nabarangpur MP and Congress's state working president Pradeep Majhi resigned from the primary membership of the party on Friday.
In a letter written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the former Parliamentarian have sought the party's lost credibility as the reason behind quitting the grand old party.
However, expressing his gratitude towards the party which provides him with ample opportunity to serve the people, Majhi has stated to follow the ideology of Congress in serving the people.
Majhi bid adieu to Congress two days after the party’s former Laxmipur MLA Kailash Kulesika joined the ruling BJD on Wednesday.
Speculations are rife of Majhi joining the ruling BJD soon.
Congress Jeypore MLA and Majhi’s bête noire Tara Prasad Bahinipati said Majhi’s resignation will not affect the party.
“Majhi and his close aide Kulesika had been involved in anti-party activities. It is good for the party that such rebels have left,” Bahinipati said.
Majhi had represented the Nabarangpur Lok Sabha as a Congress candidate in 2009 but subsequently lost the general elections of 2014 and 2019 to the BJD.
He was made the president of Odisha youth Congress and was currently serving as the working president of the state Congress.