Malkangiri: Senior Congress leader of Malkangiri district and former working president of Zilla Congress Committee Rama Prasad Patnaik has resigned from the primary membership of the party citing personal reasons.
He was currently a member of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) and Pradesh Working Committee.
In a letter to the OPCC president Niranjan Patnaik on Wednesday, Patnaik said that he had started his political career as a Student Congress leader in 1984.
“During my stint in the Congress, I have held different posts in the Students’ Congress, Youth Congress, District Congress and Pradesh Congress and diligently and efficiently discharged my duties. I am immensely grateful to the party leadership for giving me a special identity,” he added.
