Suspended CPI MLA Sethi joins BJD

Sambad English Bureau Published On : Mar 16, 2014 at 7:07 PM Updated On : Mar 16, 2014 at 8:58 PM

Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Mar 16:

As anticipated, the sitting CPI MLA from Chhatrapur assembly constituency in Ganjam district joined the BJD this evening in the presence of BJD president Naveen Patnaik at Naveen Niwas here.

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Sethi was suspended by the CPI on Saturday for violating party discipline.

After joining the BJD, Sethi said “I was being subjected to humiliation there. Most of the projects that I got sanctioned from the government was opposed by my own party men”.

He said he will be working for the BJD as he is now its member.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik who welcomed Sethi into the BJD said “Sethi’s joining will be a great help to the party in the forthcoming elections”.

CPI state unit secretary Dibakar Nayak had said on Saturday “Sethi has been suspended for breach of discipline, lack of confidence in the party and objectionable relations with the ruling party”.

Sethi was earlier denied a party ticket for Chhatrapur and in his place Krushna Nayak was named the party candidate.