Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik today appointed new state-level office-bearers for the regional party.

Patnaik, a five-time former Chief Minister, has appointed a new team of 71 office-bearers for BJD.

The BJD supremo has appointed seven senior vice presidents, eight vice presidents, 20 senior general secretaries, 35 general secretaries and one treasurer in his new team.

Patnaik had dissolved all organisational committees of the party soon after its defeat in the 2024 simultaneously Assembly and Lok Sabha polls in Odisha. He has appointed the new office-bearers for BJD in an attempt to rebuild the main Opposition party in the state.  

Former ministers Debi Prasad Mishra, Prafulla Samal, Usha Devi, Bikram Keshari Arukh, Pramila Mallick and Niranjan Pujari along with former MP Chandra Sekhar Sahu have been appointed as senior vice presidents of BJD.

Similarly, former ministers Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Sanjay Kumar Das Burma, Rabi Narayan Nanda, Pranab Prakash Das and Sarada Prasad Nayak have been made vice presidents of the regional party.

Cuttack Mayor Subash Singh has been appointed as the treasurer of the regional party, that ruled the state uninterruptedly for over two decades.

Leaders like Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo, Priti Ranjan Gharai, Tukuni Sahu, Dibya Shankar Mihsra, Pradip Majhi, Bhrugu Buxipatra, Ananta Narayan Jena, Lekhashree Samantasinghar and Pranab Balabantaray among others have been made senior general secretaries.

Several youth leaders of the party including Tusarkanti Behera, Souvic Biswal, Shreemayee Mishra, Ansuman Mohanty, Manmath Routray and Dipali Das among others have been appointed as BJD general secretaries.

In a related development, the BJD supremo has also constituted a 10-member political affairs committee for the party.

Patnaik himself will lead the political affairs committee while senior leaders like Bikram Keshari Arukh, Pramila Mallick, Niranjan Pujari, Sanjay Kumar Das Burma, Pranab Prakash Das, Sudam Marndi, Tikuni Sahu, Sasmit Patra and Santrupt Mishra are the members of the panel.

Here is the full list of office-bearers: 

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