Former Biju Janata Dal Rajya Sabha MP Debashish Samantaray joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday, day after resigning from both the Upper House of Parliament and the regional party led by Naveen Patnaik.
Rajya Sabha Chairman C. P. Radhakrishnan accepted Samantaray’s resignation from the Upper House on Monday, officially vacating the Odisha seat.
Samantaray personally met the Rajya Sabha Chairman in Parliament and submitted his resignation letter.
According to a notification issued by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat, his resignation also ended his membership in the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Public Undertakings.
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