BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will celebrate his 74th birthday among blood donors at a “Jeevan Bindu” programme to be held at the party’s head office here on October 16.
Jeevan Bidnu programme chief coordinator Debashish Samantray informed this at a Press meet here on Thursday.
“The BJD has kept making efforts to give its Jeevan Bindu progamme a shape of mass movement. Party president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has attended Jeevan Bindu programmes many times and encouraged blood donors. To keep this trend, the BJD has decided to hold Jeevan Bindu programmes at 59 places on the Chief Minister’s birthday on October 16,” said Samantray.
He said the Chief Minister will hold his birthday among blood donors at the programme to be held at BJD head office here.
“We have targeted to collect 10,000 blood units on a day. We will succeed in our endeovour with supports of BJD well wishers, workers, leaders and common people,” said Samantray.
Among others, MLAs Pranab Kumar Balabantray, Anant Narayan Jena, former MLA Anubhab Patnaik and party’s State general secretary and Jeevan Bindhu programme State coordinator Bijay Nayak were present.
Notably, the BJD had launched the Jeevan Bindu programme on the 99th birthday of former Chief Minister Biju Patnaik on March 5, 2015.