Even as the State Congress has gone through a ‘Nabakalebar’ with a change in the PCC leadership recently, two senior leaders of Purushottampur NAC in Ganjam district with 500 supporters have quit the party, giving a major jolt to it ahead of municipal polls.
They are NAC former Vice-Chairman Bighnaraj Padhi and former Nagar Congress president Ashoak Kumar Samantara.
Sources said the two along with their five hundred strong supporters organised a “Bandhu Meelan” (get-together) at the Kanaka Thakurani Peetha temple, 25 km from here, on Sunday morning and took the decision. later, they sent the resignation letters to the PCC president.
They cited gross indiscipline and noncooperation of party leadership as reasons behind quitting the party. Though they have said that they can bring development to the area by joining another panty, yet they have not named the party. The resignation of these two senior leaders from the party ahead of municipal elections in Ganjam district is a major jolt to the Congress in Purushottampur NAC, said political observers.