India, March 21 -- Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has suspended six MLAs from the party with immediate effect.

These MLAs had allegedly defied the party whip and cross-voted in the March 16 Rajya Sabha polls in Odisha.

The Naveen Patnaik-led party has suspended MLAs Chakramani Kanhar (Baliguda), Naba Kishore Mallick (Jayadev), Souvic Biswal (Choudwar-Cuttack), Subasini Jena (Basta), Ramakanta Bhoi (Tirtol) and Devi Ranjan Tripathy (Banki) for their involvement in anti-party activities.

The MLAs had voted for Dilip Ray The regional party had earlier served show-cause notice on these MLAs in connection with the alleged cross voting the recent Rajya Sabha elections in the state.

These legislators had allegedly voted for BJP-backed ind...