In a bid to prop up the youth wing of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) with recommendation of party supremo Naveen Patnaik, the Biju Yuva Janata Dal (BYJD)’s new office bearers’ and district presidents’ names were announced on Tuesday.
According to the new list, Satya Jena was nominated as vice president of the BYJD while Debesh Acharya, Pranab Balabantaray, PP Rath, Marut Kumar Pal and Manabhanjan Behera were inducted as general secretaries of the wing. Thirteen persons were introduced as secretaries of the BYJD and five persons were taken in the party as organisational secretaries, said a party release.
The BYJD also declared the names of its district presidents. They are Bijay Kumar Behera for Cuttack, Romanch Ranjan Biswal, Deogarh, Subash Chandra Jena, Sambalpur, Mukund Gouda, Brahmapur city, Jaykrushna Das Mohapatra, Puri, Dharmendra Adhikary, Koraput, Nirod Ray, Malkangiri, Binayak Kar, Rayagada, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Nuapada, Pradip Kumar Pradhan, Kandhamal, Ramesh Chandra Sahu, Nayagarh and Girija Prasad Mohanty for Dhenkanal. Besides, the party disbanded Ranjit Mohapatra and Amar Nayak as vice presidents and Rashmi Ranjan Kanungo as secretary, said BYJD spokesperson Bijay Nayak.