Naveen Patnaik suspends Pyari Mohan Mohapatra - NewsX

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday suspended Lok Sabha MP Pyari Mohan Mahapatra, two ministers and two MLAs from the party. The ministers who have been suspended from the party are Anjali Behera and Sanjeev Sahoo. On Tuesday, more than 25 BJD MLAs and four ministers had met Patnaik's rival Mahapatra at his residence in Bhubaneswar even while the Chief Minister was in London. According to BJD vice president Damodar Rout, some MLAs had met Pyari Mohan Mahapatra and were planning to form a breakaway government.