Doctor-turned-politico Aswini Pujahari recently resigned from the Congress after joining the grand old party just a few months back, on the eve of the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state.

A popular physician from western Odisha and a former director of Veera Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR), the region’s biggest government-run health facility, Pujahari had unsuccessfully contested from the Sambalpur