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Former Union Minister From Odisha Arjun Sethi, Passes Away

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Bhadrak: Eminent Odisha politician and former Union minister Arjun Charan Sethi passed away on Monday evening.

An eight-time Member of Parliament from Bhadrak, Sethi was 85 and under treatment in a private hospital after suffering brain stroke.

He first won on a Congress ticket from Bhadrak in 1971 and was re-elected in 1980.

His last four stints in Lok Sabha was as a BJP candidate.

He was Union minister of Water Resources in the Atal Vihari Vajpayee-helmed BJP government from 2000 to 2004.


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