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Leading Opposition party in Odisha, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), decided on Monday not to participate in the upcoming vice-presidential election. According to party sources, the decision was taken in a recent internal meeting, and the party will also abstain from voting in the election.
This decision was taken in a key meeting of the BJD political affairs committee.
BJD, which currently has seven members (MPs) in the Rajya Sabha, has chosen neither to nominate a candidate nor to support any other contestant. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has announced CPI's C.P. Radhakrishnan as its candidate, while the Opposition bloc ha...