Suspended BJD MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra today resigned as the
party's parliamentary group leader in Rajya Sabha."I have submitted my resignation letter to the Chairman
of Rajya Sabha this morning," Mohapatra told PTI on his return here.He said breakdown of communication between him and BJD
president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was the reason behind his
resignation. "There was no point in continuing in the post.""I will send the copy of my resignation letter to the
party president soon," he said, adding that he was, however, yet to get
the formal letter from the party president regarding his suspension.Mohapatra, who was suspended from the party along with two
BJD MLAs on June 1 in the aftermath of a failed coup against the Naveen
government on May 29, said he would like to work for the people of Odisha as a
Rajya Sabha MP.He was accused of having engineered the coup attempt to
topple Patnaik's government on May 29 when the Chief Minister was on a foreign
visit to London.Mohapatra had refused to accept the suspension announced by
Patnaik from the state secretariat, saying "I am not a clerk that my
suspension will be announced at the state secretariat. It should have either
been done at the party office or at the Naveen Niwas, the residence of the
party president."
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