Bhubaneswar: Veteran politician and former Odisha minister Damburudhar Majhi breathed his last on Sunday morning while undergoing treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the District Headquarters Hospital in Nabarangpur. He was 86.Majhi boasted a distinguished legislative career spanning several decades, marking a significant footprint in regional politics. Between 1967 and 1990, he was elected four times to the Odisha Legislative Assembly, representing Dabugam constituency (formerly Kodigan) as well as the Kodinga Assembly constituency. He first entered the state assembly in 1967 as a Swatantra Party candidate from Dabugam and successfully retained the seat in 1971 under the same banner. Later, shifting his political alignment to the Indian National Congress (I), he won the Kodinga seat in 1980 before returning to represent Dabugam for Congress in 1985.
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