Bhubaneswar, March 4 -- As elections are approaching, cracks in the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the Paradeep Assembly constituency are widening day by day after a faction of party workers raised a banner of revolt against MLA Sambit Routray.

Hundreds of party workers ganged up against the legislator at Kujang, despite a note of warning and admonition by the party's district observer.

As per reports, the long-simmering discontent among party workers against Sambit found an outlet at a recent closed-door meeting of frontline party leaders and workers at Kujang on February 29.

On Monday, over 2,000 party workers and grassroots leaders drawn from 36 panchayats held another meeting at Kujang and launched a scathing attack on the legislator.

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