The Biju Chhatra Janata Dal (BCJD), Ganjam district unit held a preparatory meeting here on Monday for the September 23 Students’ Union elections.
BCJD State observers attended the meeting and discussed plans in detail for the upcoming polls and for strengthening the BCJD district unit as well.
According to the decisions, a campus committee would be formed in each college to bring all students above 18 years of age to the BCJD’s fold. There would be student representative committees at gram panchayat and block levels too. The main job of such committees is to make students aware of education-based schemes undertaken by the Naveen Patnaik Government, informed the BCJD observes at a Press conference here.
They informed that there would be an indirect election to the Students’ Union of the Khallikote College. When asked how they knew it, they said they would hold discussions with the college authorities. However, they said they would support any kind of elections to be decided by the college authorities.
The preparatory meeting was attended by MlAs Dr Ramesh Chandra Chyaupatnaik, Devraj Mohanty (also party’s district president), Priyanshu Pradhan and Srikant Sahu, BDA Chairman Subash Moharana, K Akhil Kumar, Sanghamitra Dalei and Madhusmita Palai, among others.
BCJD, Brahmapur zone observer Biswa Swarup Sahu, State vice-president Sudeep Padhy, State secretary B Manoj Kumar Dora, district president Kumar Prasant Panda and Brahmapur zone president A Rajesh Kumar Dora addressed the Press meet. There was no girl representative present.