Former Bonai MlA Dayanidhi Kissan (64) died after falling off the roof of his double-storied house on Tuesday. Source said that like every day he was roaming on the roof when he fell down. In a critical condition, he was rushed to the Ispat General Hospital (IGH) here, where he was admitted in the ICU. Despite all efforts by a team of doctors, he succumbed to his multiple injuries at about 12.30 pm.
Hundreds of BJD leaders, including RDA Chairman Sarada Prasad Nayak, Raghunathpali MlA Subrat Tarai and Rourkela district party president Ananad Mohanty were present at the IGH.
Kissan’s body was taken in a procession to party office, RDA office and his Rourkela residence before being taken to his native Nuapada-Kaleiposh of Bonai, where his eldest son Uttam Kissan, a Zila Parishad member, performed the last rites in the village crematorium. Kissan was a BJP MlA from 2000 to 2004. Then after quitting the BJP, he joined the BJD and was RDA Chairman from 2010 to 2012.