Bhubaneswar: Former MLA Jiban Pradip Dash was suspended from the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for his anti-party activities. By the order of BJD President Naveen Patnaik, the party leader Jiban Pradip Dash was suspended from the BJD for anti-party activities with immediate effect, BJD General Secretary (media affairs) Manas Ranjan Mangaraj said in a release today. The two-time former MLA had represented Balasore Assembly Constituency. He had won the 2009 and 2014 Assembly elections on the BJD ticket. The leader had contested the assembly election from Balasore in 2019 but lost to BJP’s Madan Mohan Dutta.