By Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, May 18, 2019: The state cabinet on Saturday formally recommended to the Governor for dissolution of the outgoing assembly this evening on the eve of the last phase of polls scheduled on Sunday.

The decision was taken in the last cabinet meeting of the Naveen Patnaik led government. The new government will be formed post announcement of results on May 23.

The fifteenth assembly was formed on May 25, 2014 and it had fifteen sessions during the last five years. The last session was over on February 8 last. During this brief session, the present government had presented Rs 56,921 crore vote-on-account for the first four months of the current financial year.

Naveen Patnaik-led BJD, which secured majority for the fourth consecutive term, had formed the government on May 21, 2014 and the new assembly was constituted on May 25. The BJD had won 117 seats in the 147-member assembly, while Congress won 16, BJP-10, CPM and Samata Kranti Dal one each. Two independents-Sanatan Mahakud from Champua and Umakanta Samantaray from Satyabadi had been elected to the House.

The significant of the fifteenth assembly lays in the adoption of an unanimous resolution proposing the Centre to provide for 33 percent reservation of seats of the Parliament and the state legislatures for women.