Hundreds of disgruntled Congress supporters from Korua panchayat under Naugaon block on Monday joined BJD. They expressed their allegiance to party’s supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and local MlA Bishnu Das.
Reports said that BJD’s ongoing Jan Samparka Padayatra was held in Korua where district BJD president and senior MlA Bishnu Das including party’s many senior leaders addressed a massive public meeting.
After the meeting concluded, hundreds of local Congress supporters met Das and wanted to join the BJD.Purna Chandra Sahoo, who joined BJD, quipped that Congress was a divided house in State and the district Congress committee had been functioning under one-man rule.He felt Congress party had no future in Jagatsinghpur and hence, joined the BJD.