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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day tour of Jammu and Kashmir from Thursday, which will mark his first visit to the Union Territory (UT) after being sworn in as the PM for his third term earlier this month in the wake of the 18th Lok Sabha elections.
Seven-time Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab of the BJP has been appointed the pro-tem Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha.
As Odisha enters a new era of politics and governance after almost a quarter of a century under Naveen Patnaik, the BJP will look to meet the hopes and expectations of the people of a state that not only gave the party its first government in the East but also 20 MPs — four more than its largest NDA ally TDP — to the Narendra Modi government. And for the job, the party has picked Mohan Charan Majhi who will take oath as Chief Minister at a grand event in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday.
The BJP on Tuesday picked four-time Keonjhar MLA Mohan Charan Majhi who is from the tribal Santhal community as Odisha’s Chief Minister. Majhi will take oath along with Deputy CMs K V Singh Deo and Pravati Parida, who will become the first woman Deputy CM of the state, at the Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar at 4.55 pm on Wednesday.
The BJP Legislature Party in Odisha will meet on Tuesday to elect its leader and the state’s new Chief Minister. The new government will take oath the following day, according to a senior party leader. The BJP on June 4 secured a majority by winning 78 seats in the 147-member Odisha Assembly. It also bagged 20 of 21 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Till last week, he was the most sought-after individual in Odisha’s power corridors, giving TV interviews, taking helicopters to canvass for Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidates, and assisting Naveen Patnaik as he aimed to return to power for the sixth straight term. But by Sunday, V K Pandian was gone.
The BJP is set to form its first full-majority government in Odisha with the party leading in around 80 seats, six more than the majority mark in the 147-member Assembly.
The simultaneous Odisha battle for the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections was fiercely fought, and a day ahead of the results, both the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and BJP claimed they will get a clear majority.