Bhubaneswar, March 23 -- Senior and efficient leaders of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) continue to desert the party one after the other in Cuttack. If the trend persists, then many believe that the ruling party will be bereft of good leaders ahead of the polls. This has indeed left the BJD leadership scratching its head. Just days after actor, Arindam Roy, who is the brother-in-law of BJD's organizational secretary, Pranab Prakash Das, abandoned the party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), six-time MP Bhartruhari Mahtab quit the party.

Mahtab, who is one of the founding members of the BJD, spewed venom at the ruling party while announcing his resignation at a presser on Friday.

In his observation, he said that the party is not tre...