BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday announced the State and the district level office-bearers of the Biju Krushak Janata Dal (BKJD).
According to a party release, Akshaya Mohanty, Kanan Bihari Pahi, Birendra Prasad Swain, Jitendra Narayan Singhdeo, Alekh Choudhary and Amarendra Gangadeb have been appointed as the vice-presidents of BKJD’s State Committee.
Similarly, Kishore Kumar Meher, Antaryami Rout and Ghanashyam Nayak have been appointed as general secretaries and Manoj Kumar Mohapatra, Tirupati Banagadi, Saroj Kumar Pradhan, Uttar Kumar Patra and Jayant Panigrahi as secretaries.
The newly appointed BKJD district presidents included Ajay Kumar Samal (Baleswar), Ajay Das (Balangir), Prasant Kumar Behera (Cuttack), Purna Chandra Swain (Ganjam), Dilip Thakur (Kalahandi), Anand Jena (Sambalpur) and Gopal Chandra Pradhan (Sundargarh).
It may be noted that BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik had earlier appointed Prasanna Acharya as BKJD president and Pratap Jena as secretary general.