Dissent brewing in BJD

BHUBANESWAR, Oct 29: Resentment within the Biju Janata Dal BJD following the shake-up in the party organisation by president Naveen Patnaik came to the fore today with one of the district presidents declining to take up the post.

Aswini Samal, who earlier was president of the undivided Cuttack district unit of BJD and chosen to head the Cuttack city unit now, wrote a letter to the party chief yesterday declining to accept the post.

Pointing out that Cuttack city was one of the 10 Assembly constituencies of the Cuttack district which he headed earlier, Samal said he was not in a position to accept the offer.