{"id":24763,"date":"2024-04-05T11:05:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/a-day-after-quitting-bjd-athamallik-mla-ramesh-chandra-sai-joins-bjp-in-odisha-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:06:04","slug":"a-day-after-quitting-bjd-athamallik-mla-ramesh-chandra-sai-joins-bjp-in-odisha-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/a-day-after-quitting-bjd-athamallik-mla-ramesh-chandra-sai-joins-bjp-in-odisha-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"A day after quitting BJD, Athamallik MLA Ramesh Chandra Sai joins BJP in Odisha &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-523490\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>Bhubaneswar: A day after quitting the ruling BJD, Athamallik MLA Ramesh Chandra Sai joined the BJP in Odisha on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sai had resigned from the Naveen Patnaik-led party on Thursday after he was denied ticket for the upcoming Assembly elections in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Sai joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan at Athamallik today.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Sai had won the 2019 Assembly elections in the state on a BJD ticket from Athamallik constituency in Angul district.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ruling party denied him a ticket for the 2024 Assembly polls in Odisha.<\/p>\n<p>The party has picked Nalini Kant Pradhan, a former Public Works department secretary, as its candidate from Athamallik seat. Pradhan had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Sambalpur constituency in Odisha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was elected from Athamallik in 2019 after winning by a record 47,000 votes. For personal reasons, I am unable to continue in the party,\u201d said Sai in his resignation letter to BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; Bhubaneswar: A day after quitting the ruling BJD, Athamallik MLA Ramesh Chandra Sai joined the BJP in Odisha on Friday. Sai had resigned from the Naveen Patnaik-led party on Thursday after he was denied ticket for the upcoming Assembly elections in the state. Sai joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24765,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24763\/revisions\/24765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}