Odisha Politics: Prabhas Singh, former BJD MP has joined BJP today. He has formally joined at the BJP office in New Delhi. A few days later, he resigned from BJD. He was BJD MP from Bargarh Loksabha seat in 2014.
Prabhas was also the Bargarh district president of BJD. He was hoping to get a ticket this time. But BJD gave ticket to Parinita Mishra who came from Congress and joined BJD. Prabhas was unhappy about that.
After he joined the BJP, he said, “Now, I joined the BJP to involve myself in the Bikashita Odisha of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, since the BJP has already announced its MP candidate for Bargarh, there is a lot of talk about what the party will do to Prabhas.