The BJP Kakatpur MLA candidate Tusharkanti Behera joined the BJD here on Tuesday in the presence of party supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Patnaik said, “I welcome Tusharkanti Behera to the party.
His joining would further strengthen the BJD.”
Notably, Kakatpur is going to polls in the fourth phase on April 29. Tusharkanti Behera had earlier contested Assembly polls in 2014 with a BJP ticket and lost to BJD’s Surendra Sethi.
