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With Odisha one of the brightest spots in the BJP’s Lok Sabha election showing, the party is set to appoint its popular tribal face from the state and six-time Sundargarh MP Jual Oram, Sambalpur MP Dharmendra Pradhan, and the party’s Rajya Sabha MP from the state Ashwini Vaishnaw to the Union Council of Ministers.
The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has announced that it would stop giving “issue-based support” to the BJP in Parliament. BJD chief and ex-Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik held a meeting with his party’s nine Rajya Sabha MPs on Monday, asking them to ensure that the party goes all out to “protect the interests of Odisha” and emerges as a “strong and vibrant” Opposition in Parliament.
Seven-time Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab of the BJP has been appointed the pro-tem Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha.
Former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik is all set to begin his new innings — this time on the Opposition benches. On Wednesday, BJD’s legislature party elected him as the Leader of the Opposition after his party lost the state assembly polls to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
As new Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi takes guard, the BJP-led government is bracing for a bumpy road, with the first challenge before it to deliver on the promises made during the election campaign. For the 52-year-old CM, who has no previous ministerial experience, keeping all the factions in the party united and facing the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the Opposition for the first time will also be among the major challenges.
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.
A week after the BJP stormed to power in Odisha on its own for the first time by winning 78 out of 147 seats, its state legislature unit is set to hold a meeting Tuesday to elect its leader, who will be sworn in as the Chief Minister the next day.
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.