<p class="title">Four-time BJD Lok Sabha MP Tathagata Satpathy was not feeling comfortable in the party after the entry of his long-time media and political rival Soumya Ranjan Patnaik into the BJD.</p>.<p class="title">This may have led the senior leader to quit party politics, BJD sources said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="title">Satpathy, the sitting MP from coastal Odisha Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency, had announced that he will quit politics on Tuesday to concentrate on "fearless journalism".</p>.<p class="title">The BJD high command had roped in Soumya Ranjan into the party a year back. He was rewarded with a Rajya Sabha berth the day he joined the regional outfit. This had not gone well with a section of the party.</p>.<p class="title">The Bhubaneswar-based media houses owned by Tathagata and Soumya Ranjan have long been arch rivals.</p>.<p class="title">Ranjan's media empire runs <span class="italic">Sambad</span>, a daily Odia newspaper; <span class="italic">Kanak TV</span>, an Odia TV news channel; and <span class="italic">Radio Chocolate</span>, a private FM radio station.</p>.<p class="title">Tathagata's media house runs <span class="italic">Dharitri</span> and <span class="italic">Orissa Post</span>, which are daily newspapers in Odia and English, respectively. Both edit their respective newspapers.</p>.<p class="title">The political background of both journalist-politicians is interesting.</p>.<p class="title">While Soumya Ranjan is the son-in-law of Congress' three-time chief minister the late J B Patnaik, Tathagata is the son of another former Congress chief minister the late Nandini Satpathy.</p>.<p class="title">Patnaik and Satpathy were also rivals in the state Congress in their time.</p>.<p class="title">Tathagata had inherited his media house from his parents. His father Debendra Satpathy was also an MP.</p>.<p class="title">Ranjan, on the other hand, had set up his media empire in the early 1980s, when his father-in-law was the chief minister.</p>.<p class="title">Ranjan was once elected to the Lok Sabha from the prestigious Bhubaneswar constituency on a Congress ticket.</p>.<p class="title">He was suspended from the party a few years back for anti-party activities. His brother, Niranjan Patnaik, an ex-minister, currently heads the Pradesh Congress Committee(PCC). Ranjan had floated a regional outfit of his own before joining the BJD.</p>.<p class="title">Tathagata, on theother handd, had never joined his mother’s party, the Congress.</p>.<p class="title">He was an MLA of the undivided Janata Dal when BJD founder the late Biju Patnaik was the chief minister between 1990 and 1995.</p>
<p class="title">Four-time BJD Lok Sabha MP Tathagata Satpathy was not feeling comfortable in the party after the entry of his long-time media and political rival Soumya Ranjan Patnaik into the BJD.</p>.<p class="title">This may have led the senior leader to quit party politics, BJD sources said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="title">Satpathy, the sitting MP from coastal Odisha Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency, had announced that he will quit politics on Tuesday to concentrate on "fearless journalism".</p>.<p class="title">The BJD high command had roped in Soumya Ranjan into the party a year back. He was rewarded with a Rajya Sabha berth the day he joined the regional outfit. This had not gone well with a section of the party.</p>.<p class="title">The Bhubaneswar-based media houses owned by Tathagata and Soumya Ranjan have long been arch rivals.</p>.<p class="title">Ranjan's media empire runs <span class="italic">Sambad</span>, a daily Odia newspaper; <span class="italic">Kanak TV</span>, an Odia TV news channel; and <span class="italic">Radio Chocolate</span>, a private FM radio station.</p>.<p class="title">Tathagata's media house runs <span class="italic">Dharitri</span> and <span class="italic">Orissa Post</span>, which are daily newspapers in Odia and English, respectively. Both edit their respective newspapers.</p>.<p class="title">The political background of both journalist-politicians is interesting.</p>.<p class="title">While Soumya Ranjan is the son-in-law of Congress' three-time chief minister the late J B Patnaik, Tathagata is the son of another former Congress chief minister the late Nandini Satpathy.</p>.<p class="title">Patnaik and Satpathy were also rivals in the state Congress in their time.</p>.<p class="title">Tathagata had inherited his media house from his parents. His father Debendra Satpathy was also an MP.</p>.<p class="title">Ranjan, on the other hand, had set up his media empire in the early 1980s, when his father-in-law was the chief minister.</p>.<p class="title">Ranjan was once elected to the Lok Sabha from the prestigious Bhubaneswar constituency on a Congress ticket.</p>.<p class="title">He was suspended from the party a few years back for anti-party activities. His brother, Niranjan Patnaik, an ex-minister, currently heads the Pradesh Congress Committee(PCC). Ranjan had floated a regional outfit of his own before joining the BJD.</p>.<p class="title">Tathagata, on theother handd, had never joined his mother’s party, the Congress.</p>.<p class="title">He was an MLA of the undivided Janata Dal when BJD founder the late Biju Patnaik was the chief minister between 1990 and 1995.</p>
