Bhubaneswar: A day after Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab joined BJP, former Salepur MLA and BJP Cuttack district president Prakash Chandra Behera quit the saffron party. He sent his resignation letter to BJP state president Manmohan Samal on Thursday.
“I have always tried to do justice to my position and the team has tried to achieve milestones. But I could not give satisfactory results,” he wrote in the letter.
Speculation is rife that he may join the ruling BJD. Behera had won the Salepur in 2014 on Congress ticket. He joined the BJP ahead of 2019 elections and contesting again from the same constituency but lost to BJD’s Prashant Behera.