Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Niranjan Patnaik, AICC Odisha in-charge Jitendra Singh and some other office -bearers of the State party met AICC president Rahul Gandhi at his residence in New Delhi on Saturday.
Sources said Rahul held discussions for more than two hours on the party affairs in Odisha with Patnaik and other office-bearers.
later, Patnaik said “We informed Rahulji about the initiatives we have undertaken and the programmes we have organised post my appointment as PCC president. Besides, we discussed different party issues relating to Odisha.”
He further said the AICC president is most likely to visit Odisha in July.”
In a circular issued by the AICC in the evening, Rahul Gandhi finalised a list of the new District Congress Committee presidents and working presidents. While 11 DCC presidents remained unchanged, the party high command appointed new faces in the remaining 22 districts.
Satyabhushan Sahu was appointed as DCC president for Bargarh, Umakanta Sahu for Deogarh, Biplab Jena for Angul, Suresh Panigrahi for Dhenkanal, Dilip Kumar Behera for Balangir, Sankar Das for Subarnpur, Hemant Das for Mayurbhanj, Benumadhab Tripathy for Sundargarh, Rabi Ray for Rourkela and Aswini Kumar Guru for Sambalpur.
Similarly, in Keonjhar Mohan Kumar Panda was named DCC president, Ranjit Das in Nayagarh, Satyabrata Patra in Puri, Sarat Raj in Baleswar, Manoj Rout in Jajpur, Ashok Das in Bhadrak, Chinmay Prasad Behura in Kendrapada, Girish Ranjan Panda in Jharsuguda, Suresh Kumar Routray in Khordha, Manas Choudhury in Bhubaneswar, Mohammed Moquim in Cuttack city, Gurupad Nanda in Cuttack, Govind Chandra Patra in Malkangiri, Manoranjan Tripathi in Nabrangpur, Durga Prasad Panda in Raygada, Bharat Bhusan Bemal in Kalahandi, Ghasiram Majhi in Nuapada, Bibhuti Patra in Gajapati, Barun Bhoi in Kandhamal, Sudhir Mahakud in Baudh, Dr Trinath Behera in Ganjam, Meenakshi Bahinipati in Koraput and Natabar Barik in Jagatsinghpur .