Last Updated on 01/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Mamta Mohanta resigned from Rajya Sabha and party membership. Meanwhile, there are speculations about her joining BJP. In a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, Mamta Mohanta said that she has taken this decision after careful consideration, Dhankhar has accepted Mohanta’s resignation with immediate effect.
Dhankhar said that he has personally resigned from his seat by handing over the letter to me. I consider it constitutionally appropriate. I have accepted the resignation of member Mamta Mohanta representing the state of Odisha with immediate effect.
At the same time, in her resignation letter to BJD President Naveen Patnaik, Mohanta said that she feels that there is no need for her and her community’s service in the party. She said that I express my heartfelt gratitude to you for giving me the opportunity to serve the people of Mayurbhanj and raise Odisha’s issues at the national level.
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Mohanta said that she is resigning from the primary membership of BJD, earlier in the day Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said that he has received Mohanta’s resignation letter as MP. With Mohanta’s resignation, the number of BJD members in Rajya Sabha has come down to 8, while there is no BJD MP in Lok Sabha,
BJP sources said she may join the BJP and get re-elected to the vacant seat with the help of the party’s increased strength in the Assembly.
Without naming the BJP, Chief Whip of the Opposition in the state assembly Pramila Malik said that Mohanta’s resignation is part of a conspiracy hatched by a national party. A national party hatched a conspiracy to increase its strength in the Rajya Sabha. Mamata Mohanta was sent to the Rajya Sabha by Naveen Patnaik to give representation to Mayurbhanj and the Mohanta community, she has betrayed her community, the state and the people of Mayurbhanj. She rejected Mohanta’s allegations of being sidelined in the party. Pramila Malik said that Mohanta should remember what she did during the elections.
Let us tell you that at present BJP has 78 members in the assembly, while the opposition BJD has 51 seats, Congress has 14 seats, three independents and one CPI(M). There are 10 Rajya Sabha seats in the state, out of which 8 are with BJD, while one is with BJP.
BJP sources claimed that Mohanta is likely to be re-nominated to the seat vacated by him, but there are indications that the names of party state president Manmohan Samal and senior leaders Dilip Ray and Samir Dash are also being considered. All of them lost the recently concluded assembly elections but played a key role in bringing the BJP to power in the state.