The Brahmapur Mahanagar BJP organisation was reconstituted here on Wednesday to strengthen the party at the grassroots level and to increase the intake of its membership.
In this exercise, 14 new faces were inducted. Five vice-presidents who were included in the Mahanagar team by president Dr Bhavani Shankar Das are Soumendra Das, Bhukant Sahu, Suresh Chandra Behera, K Raju and Dillip Kumar Sahu. Radhagovind Panigrahi and Sangaram Keshari Padhi were appointed as general secretaries.
While Patitapaban Sahu was appointed as treasurer, Rajendra Behera, Sushila Singh, Tumbeswar Nayak, K Kuni Subudhi, Sameer Kumar Panda and Rohit Nayak were made secretaries. Besides, ten members including Balaram Maharana were nominated to the executive body. The other members nominated to different wings of the party include Sunil Kumar Choudhury as Yuva Morcha president; Sabita Nayak as Mahila Morcha
president; P Jagannath Giri as Krushak Morcha president; Prabhat Hati as SC/ST
Morcha president; Sabita Pradhan as Jana Jati Morcha president and Md liakat as Minority Cell president.
Besides, former Assembly Deputy Speaker Rama Chandra Panda and Shiva Shankar Das were taken as special invitees of the Mahanagar BJP unit. It was noted that the vote share of the BJP in the recent general elections has increased substantially. The party would undertake a membership drive and other programmes in the days ahead, said BJP district president BK Swain.