Kartikeswar Patra quits Congress

Sambad English Bureau Published On : Mar 19, 2014 at 1:29 PM Updated On : Mar 19, 2014 at 1:40 PM

Odisha Sun Times Bureau

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Senior Congress leader, former MP and former Bhograi MLA Kartikeswar Patra today snapped his ties with Congress by announcing his resignation from the party.

He was upset with the party high command’s re-nomination of Union minister Srikant Jena as the candidate for the Baleswar Lok Sabha seat as well as selection of some candidates for the assembly seats in Baleswar, sources said.

Patra said he was resigning from the party for the lack of discipline within the party.

Patra who was elected to the Odisha Assembly thrice from Bhograi on a Congress ticket in 1971,1974 and 1980 is likely to join the Trinamool Congress and contest the Baleswar Lok Sabha seat.

1 Comment

aoop singh says 10 years ago

I Know you since you were in Parliament. You are a writer & poet.Creative persons never retire.You start writing about current election scenario in Odisha & in India. Poets never tell lies.Because poems always come from the heart. People should know your feelings & experiences in the world of dirty Politics.

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