Bhubaneswar: Rajkishore Behera resigned from the Congress on Thursday.
“Please accept this letter as my formal notice of resignation from the primary membership of Indian National Congress, effective from today. I am deeply appreciative of numerous opportunities given to me to serve the people of Tirtol constituency in particular and people of Odisha in general,” Behera said in a letter to the president of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC), Niranjan Patnaik.
Behera had contested the 2009 and 2014 Assembly elections from Tirtol as a Congress candidate, but lost both times.
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