Bhubaneswar: High drama unfolded in front of Naveen Niwas, the residence of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, here on Wednesday evening as a woman claiming BJD MLA Braja Kishore Pradhan’s wife tried to kill herself.

Police has managed to catch her while she had already cut the nerves of her left hand.

According to reports, the woman had tried to enter into Naveen Niwas to meet the CM but the security personnel didn't allow her to do so. Upset over this, the woman cut the vain of her left hand with a blade.

Sources said the woman, a librarian in a private college in Banki near Khurda, was rushed to Capital Hospital where she was given first aid treatment.

Meanwhile, the police have detained the woman for questioning.

The 30-year-old lady had attempted suicide as she didn’t get the justice despite lodging police complaint against the MLA, who allegedly dumped her after marrying in a temple, sources added.

The woman had said that Pradhan befriended her in December 2014 after her phone was mistakenly connected to him and later they got married in Jaggantah Temple in Puri.

The BJD MLA ditched her when she came to know that the legislator’s affairs with another woman and protested it.