Former Odisha Congress leaders likely to rejoin party

BHUBANESWAR: Several former Congress leaders who had quit the party to join BJD ahead of the 2024 elections are likely to return back following a call given by the newly-appointed president of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Bhakta Charan Das in this regard.

Sources said Congress will start negotiations with leaders like Prafulla Majhi, Bhupinder Singh, Anshuman Mohanty, Prakash Behera, Surendra Singh Bhoi and Chiranjib Biswal once the party’s Sankalpa Padayatra from Bhubaneswar to Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri is over. The yatra will commence on Tuesday.

Majhi, a three-time Congress MLA from Talsara Assembly constituency in Sundargarh district, has openly indicated that he is likely to return to his parent party.