Internal tensions within the Odisha Congress resurfaced on Thursday after several senior leaders strongly reacted to Mohammed Moquim’s open challenge to Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Bhakta Das in his letter to Sonia Gandhi.

According to reports, senior Congress leaders Suresh Routray, Jayadev Jena and Ananta Sethi have expressed displeasure over Moquim’s letter.

Suresh Routray criticised Moquim’s actions, stating that he was “ruining his daughter’s career” by engaging in such behaviour. Routray further remarked that Moquim should “mind his own business,” adding that if he wished to form a new party, he was free to do so. He also questioned why Moquim’s letter reached the media in the first place.

Ananta Sethi, too, questioned the intention behind making the letter p

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