The BJP State unit has announced names of the newly-elected presidents for 30 of its 36 organisational districts.
After four-day-long open house consultations, district presidents were elected on consensus in the presence of BJP national general secretary and Odisha in-charge Arun Singh and joint general secretary (organisation) Sudan Singh, a release said.
Those named as district presidents are Bhagirathi Pradhan (Angul), Madan Mohan Dutta (Baleswar), Narayan Sahu (Bargarh), Badri Narayan Dhala (Bhadrak), Harekrushna Khuntia (Bhubaneswar), Bhaktabandhu Naik (Balangir), Soumitri Nayak (Boudh), laxmidhar Pradhan (Cuttack city), Choudhury Hemanta Sahu (Cuttack Sadar), Arun Kumar Sahu (Deogarh), Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan (Dhenkanal), Kahnu Charan Pati (Ganjam), Pruthiraj Mohapatra (Ghumusar), Ashutosh Parida (Jajpur), Radharani Panda (Jharsuguda), Pradipta Kumar Naik (Kalahandi), Sukanta Kumar Dwibedi (Kendrapada), Subash Jena (Khordha), Bijaya Kumar Mishra (Koraput), Ashok Kumar Parida (Malkangiri), Krushna Chandra Mohapatra (Baripada, Mayurbhanj), Nabin Ram (Rairangpur, Mayurbhanj), Gobinda Kumar Jain (Nabarangpur), Sanyasi Nayak (Nayagarh), Shiba Prasad Mund (Nuapada), Pravanjan Mohapatra (Puri), Siba Sankar Ullaka (Rayagada), Bata Kishor Mishra (Sundargarh), Jagabandhu Behera (Panposh, Sundargarh) and Rahas Bihari Pradhan (Bonai, Sundargarh).
Presidents of the six organisational districts, including Gajapati, Jagatsinghpur, Kandhamal, Keonjhar and Sambalpur, would be announce later, party sources said.