Bhubaneswar: Governor Raghubar Das on Monday dissolved the legislative Assembly. Earlier on the day, Odisha Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in virtual mode recommended to the Governor to dissolve the Assembly.
The Cabinet took the decision, a day before the counting of votes in the state for both the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
The Governor in exercise of power conferred upon him by clause 2 ( b) of Article 174 of the constitution India, ordered that the Assembly constituted on May 25, 2019 by Election Commission of India, shall stand dissolved with effect from the date a newly elected legislature is constituted by the Election Commission of India. A notification in this regard was issued by the Parliamentary Affairs department of Odisha government.
Official sources said the dissolution of the Odisha Assembly was the only agenda item of today’s Cabinet meeting.
Odisha went to the polls in four phases starting from May 13 to elect 147 legislators and 21 Lok Sabha members. In the last Assembly, the ruling BJD had 114 members, the BJP had 22 members, and the Congress had a strength of only nine members. Both the CPI(M) and an Independent candidate had one member each in the Assembly.
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