In the ongoing fight over the Mahanadi and Polavaram issues, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Monday formed a four-member steering committee to decide its further course of action to put pressure on the Centre.
Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik appointed Rajya Sabha members Prasanna Acharya and Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, BJD MlA Debi Prasad Mishra and former Union Minister Chandra Shekhar Sahu as the members of the committee, informed BJD State secretary Bijay Nayak.
Patnaik also appointed Commerce and Transport Minister Nrusingha Charan Sahu as the party observer of Puri district. Rajya Sabha member Achyuta Samanta was given the charge of assistant observer of Kandhamal and Mayurbhanj districts.