[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.

[5] Sethy contested the 2000 Orissa Legislative Assembly election, standing as an independent candidate in Pattamundai.

[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.

[13] CPI(ML) Liberation fielded him as its candidate in the Kendrapara constituency in the 2009 Orissa Legislative Assembly election.