Bhubaneswar, September 8: Chilika MLA Prasant Kumar Jagdev, who exhibited his pugnacious qualities yet again on Wednesday, was suspended from the BJD.
Jagdev, well known for courting controversies for his highhandedness, this time finds himself in a soup after he thrashed a senior Nagar BJP leader in full public glare at Balugaon area in Khurda district.
Taking strong and immediate action following the incident, BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik suspended the ‘unruly’ legislator from the party.
Patnaik also removed Jagadev from the post of Chairperson, District Planning Committee, Khurda, that he was holding for the last two years, with immediate effect.
Earlier in the day, a video of the incident went viral on social media platforms which showed MLA Jagdev manhandling and slapping Balugaon Nagar BJP president Niranjan Sethi at a busy market street in the coastal town.
