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Biju Janata Dal Rajya Sabha subordinate Debasish Samantray has resigned from the station of vice president, stating that the determination enactment has failed to judge the origin of decision successful the 2024 elections and instrumentality remedial measures.
In a missive addressed to erstwhile Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik connected Monday (November 24, 2025), Mr. Samantray said, “Since our electoral canvass debacle past year, pursuing station post-electoral scenario, the enactment has failed to judge the origin oregon to instrumentality remedial measures. Strangely, the crushed is connected the lips of each idiosyncratic and protagonist of the party, and too our hopeless submissions, the enactment has struggled to judge the reality.”
Taking beardown exceptions to his caller assignment “in the capableness of the fertile of vice president”, the Rajya Sabha subordinate said the assignment sounded similar it was a elder national cell.
“I neglect to recognize what ‘in the fertile of Vice-President’ truly means. Besides sounding bureaucratic, specified designation is demeaning and humiliating,” helium said.
“I uncertainty that determination is immoderate spot for loyalists of legendary Biju Babu oregon your loyalists, who person stood similar stone down your agelong and illustrious governmental career. Now our enactment has a caller enactment of thought, ideology and enactment deviated from the Biju bequest that you epitomise,” said Mr. Samantray.
Addressing to Mr. Patnaik, the MP said, “after cautious introspection, I consciousness alternatively disappointed contempt my unflinching loyalty for you. Not simply for me, but for the thousands of workers of the BJD, you inactive stay our lone anticipation successful future. I americium definite nether your enactment we volition regain assurance of millions of radical of our State.”
“Wins and losses are earthy to elections. However, we mislaid contempt a fashionable Chief Minister. Every BJD cadre and leader, whether they talk retired oregon not, cognize the origin down our decision successful 2024 and earnestly anticipation that you volition thwart immoderate effort being made to weaken our party, astir arsenic if determination is simply a plan to it. I petition your idiosyncratic attraction to tide implicit the contiguous concern successful the party,” Mr. Samantray said tendering his resignation.
Later speaking to media, the Rajya Sabha subordinate alleged that the BJD was controlled by the erstwhile bureaucrat from distant locations. The dissent seems to person dispersed retired with erstwhile Minister and BJD person Bhupinder Singh said the enactment had deviated from bequest of legendary person the precocious Biju Patnaik.
