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The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) suspended 3 MLAs for cross-voting successful the Rajya Sabha elections held connected Monday (March 16).
Rajya Sabha elections highlights connected March 16, 2026
Ramesh Jena, Dasarathi Gamango and Sofia Firdous were suspended from the party.
It was a cleanable expanse for the BJP, which won each the 3 Rajya Sabha seats.
Datteswar Ray Hota, who was fielded arsenic a communal campaigner by the Congress, the BJD and the Left, mislaid to hotelier and Independent backed by the BJP, Dilip Ray.
As galore arsenic 11 MLAs from the BJD and the Congress voted for Mr. Dilip Ray against the whip issued by 2 parties.
“Congress MLAs Ramesh Jena, Dasarathi Gamango and Sofia Firdous person transverse voted successful favour of BJP’s campaigner successful the Rajya Sabha elections. This enactment of betrayal was unexpected from them. We volition guarantee that they are expelled nether the provisions of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution,” Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee president Bhakta Charan Das had told the reporters connected Monday (March 16).
