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4th BJD MLA joins BJP in a month

An MLA of Odisha's governing BJD joined BJP on Monday, the fourth to do so in less than a month ahead of the simultaneous LS and assembly polls.

Tribal leader and two-time legislator Premananda Nayak was a minister in CM Naveen Patnaik's team from 2019 to 2022. Nayak had announced his resignation from BJD last month and claimed he was "neglected".

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