Suspended BJD MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra today resigned as theparty's parliamentary group leader in Rajya Sabha.
"I have submitted my resignation letter to the Chairmanof Rajya Sabha this morning," Mohapatra told PTI on his return here.
He said breakdown of communication between him and BJDpresident and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was the reason behind hisresignation. "There was no point in continuing in the post."
"I will send the copy of my resignation letter to theparty president soon," he said, adding that he was, however, yet to getthe formal letter from the party president regarding his suspension.
Mohapatra, who was suspended from the party along with twoBJD MLAs on June 1 in the aftermath of a failed coup against the Naveengovernment on May 29, said he would like to work for the people of Odisha as aRajya Sabha MP.
He was accused of having engineered the coup attempt totopple Patnaik's government on May 29 when the Chief Minister was on a foreignvisit to London.
Mohapatra had refused to accept the suspension announced byPatnaik from the state secretariat, saying "I am not a clerk that mysuspension will be announced at the state secretariat. It should have eitherbeen done at the party office or at the Naveen Niwas, the residence of theparty president."