Radhakanta Sethy | |
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Member: Orissa Legislative Assembly | |
In office 1990–1995 | |
Constituency | Pattamundai |
Personal details | |
Born | 1960 (age 64–65) |
Political party | Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation |
Other political affiliations | Orissa Communist Party,Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Profession | Politician |
Radhakanta Sethy (born in 1959/1960 [1] ) is an Indian politician and trade unionist.
Sethy is the son of Binakar Sethy. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pattamundai College in 1982. He lives in Banto,Kendrapara district. [2]
Sethy was elected to the Orissa Legislative Assembly in 1990. He stood as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate in the Pattamundai seat,obtaining 35,861 votes (43.96% of the votes in the constituency). [3] He was the sole CPI(M) candidate elected to the assembly. [3] Sethy left the CPI(M),and on 19 September 1991 he requested to be recognised as an independent assembly member. He subsequently joined the Orissa Communist Party,and on 4 March 1992 he requested to be recognised an OCP member in the assembly. [4]
He lost the Pattamundai seat in the 1995 Orissa Legislative Assembly election. He stood as an OCP candidate and finished in third place with 15,493 votes (14.34%). [5] Sethy contested the 2000 Orissa Legislative Assembly election,standing as an independent candidate in Pattamundai. He finished in third place with 13,079 votes (12.88%). [6]
Sethy joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation in 2002. [7] As of 2008,he was an Orissa State Committee member of the CPI(ML) Liberation. [8] [9] [10] He is also a leader of the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU),the labour wing of CPI(ML) Liberation. [11] [12] The first Orissa state conference of AICCTU,held in 2008,elected Sethi as the general secretary of its Orissa unit. [13] CPI(ML) Liberation fielded him as its candidate in the Kendrapara constituency in the 2009 Orissa Legislative Assembly election. He finished in fifth place,with 552 votes (0.47%). [1]