Senior Advocate and former Chairman of Bar Council of India (BCI) Ashok Parija has been appointed as the new Advocate General of the State. He will replace present incumbent Surya Prasad Mishra.
Parija had been elected BCI Chairman succeeding former Solicitor General of India Gopal Subramaniam in July 2011.
Born in 1961, Parija was enrolled as an advocate in the High Court of Orissa at the age of 23. He started his practice under Bijoy K Mahanti, former Advocate General.
Parija was designated as a Senior Advocate in 2003 and elected as a member to the State Bar Council in March 2008. The same year in August, he became a member of Bar Council of India.