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New Delhi\/Bhubaneswar:<\/strong> A day after deserting Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and resigning from her Rajya Sabha seat, Mamata Mohanta joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at party headquarters in Delhi.<\/p>\n Mohanta, a prominent tribal leader from the Kudumi community of Odisha\u2019s Mayurbhanj district, joined the BJP in the presence of party national general secretary Arun Singh and party Odisha in-charge Vijaypal Singh Tomar.<\/p>\n Starting her address with \u201cJai Jagannath\u201d, Mohanta said, \u201cService to people is my first aim in public life, I was being neglected in BJD for quite some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In her resignation letter to BJD Supremo Naveen Patnaik, Mohanta said she felt that there was no requirement of the service of her and her community in the party.<\/p>\n Without naming the BJP, opposition chief whip in the state assembly Pramila Mallik said Ms Mohanta\u2019s resignation was part of a \u201cconspiracy hatched by a national party\u201d. She rejected Ms Mohanta\u2019s allegations of being sidelined in the party.<\/p>\n \u201cI joined BJP inspired by Prime Minister Shir Narendra Modi\u2019s ideals to serve people and this is my personal decision, I am not involved in any conspiracy,\u201d Mohanta told media persons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New Delhi\/Bhubaneswar: A day after deserting Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and resigning from her Rajya Sabha seat, Mamata Mohanta joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at party headquarters in Delhi. Mohanta, a prominent tribal leader from the Kudumi community of Odisha\u2019s Mayurbhanj district, joined the BJP in the presence of party national general secretary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37986,"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-37985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mamata-Mohanta.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37985","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=37985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37987,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37985\/revisions\/37987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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