Shocking news: Kishore Mohanty (Brajrajnagar MLA) is no more

Senior BJD MLA and the former speaker of the Odisha assembly, Kishore Kumar Mohanty, suffered a heart attack at the condolence meeting. He died later at a private hospital in the state’s Jharsuguda town on Thursday evening.

A veteran leader from western Odisha, Mohanty was thrice elected to the Odisha assembly from Jharsuguda assembly constituency. In the 2019 elections, he won from the Brajarajnagar assembly segment from where he was asked to contest by the party to make space for senior Congress leader Naba Das who joined the BJD ahead of the 2019 assembly elections.

Mohanty was the ruling BJD’s chief whip between 2004 and 2007, and was assembly speaker between 2007 and 2009. He also worked as the Western Odisha Development Council chairman between 2014 and 2019.

We Online Sambalpur Team express our sincere condolence to the bereaved family and pray to God for his noble soul to rest in peace.