Bhubaneswar: Former Salepur MLA and ex-BJP leader Prakash Chandra Behera today joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) ahead of the twin polls in Odisha.

He joined the regional party at the Sankha Bhawan here.

Behera had on March 28 tendered resignation from the BJP. "I have always tried to do justice to my position and the team has tried to achieve milestones. But I could not give satisfactory results," he had written in the resignation letter addressed to BJP State President Manmohan Samal.

Notably, Behera had successfully contested the 2014 Assembly polls from Salepur constituency on Congress ticket. In 2019, he left Congress and joined the BJP. He also contested from the very constituency that year on BJP ticket but lost to BJD’s Prashant Behera.