Odisha: Former MLA Jaynarayan Mohanty dies
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Senior BJP leader and former MLA Jaynarayan Mohanty passed away on Saturday after prolonged illness, family members said.
Mohanty, 73, is survived by two sons and a daughter.
He breathed his last at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, where he was undergoing treatment for kidney ailments and diabetes, they said.
Mohanty was elected twice as MLA from the Jaleswar assembly constituency – in 1995 and 2000 – as a Congress candidate.
He had joined the BJP in 2019.
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