Bijayshree Routray (28 July 1953 – 2 June 2021) was a politician from

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, India.

Biography

He was a member of the

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representing Basudevpur from 1990 until 2019. Routray died from

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at age 67 in

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during the COVID-19 pandemic in Odisha.

References

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