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After MP joins BJP, BJD holds meet to keep flocks together
The Business Guardian
|August 03, 2024
A day after senior BJD leader and Rajya Sabha MP Mamata Mohanta joining the ruling BJP, the regional party on Friday held a meeting apparently to keep its flocks together.
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Senior BJP leader Arabinda Dhali claimed that more BJD leaders will switch sides. Mohanta quit her party on Wednesday, hours after she resigned as a Rajya Sabha MP. She joined the saffron party on Thursday.
The BJP came to power in the state in June defeating the BJD which ruled Odisha for 24 years in a row.
BJD MP Sulata Deo, however, dismissed the possibility, claiming that the party's eight MPs in the Upper House of Parliament are together.
"There has been horse trading in the Mamata Mohanta case. But, there cannot be leader trading from BJD. All our leaders are solidly with (party president) Naveen Patnaik," Deo, a Rajya Sabha MP said in a video message.
This story is from the August 03, 2024 edition of The Business Guardian.
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