Bhubaneswar: Senior BJD leader and vice-president of the party Raghunath Mohanty on Saturday resigned as the chairman of Odisha Lift Irrigation Corporation (OLIC).
He arrived at the Naveen Niwas and submitted his resignation letter t
o the party president Naveen Patnaik.
Talking to mediapersons later, Mohanty said he had resigned from the post due to personal reasons.
To a query on contesting the Assembly election from his home constituency Basta in Balasore district, he said, “It is up to the party president to take a decision in this regard.”
Notably, Mohanty was removed from the post in March 2013 after he was arrested in a dowry torture case slapped by his daughter-in-law Barsa Swony Choudhury. The five-time Basta MLA since 1990 was also denied party ticket in 2014 polls.
However, he was reinstated in the party as a vice-president on March 16, 2018.