Odisha unit BJP announces district presidents

Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Jan 11:

The Odisha unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced the newly-elected presidents for 30 of 36 organisational districts in the state.

After four-day open house consultations, the leaders arrived at consensus and the names were declared yesterday. The selection of district presidents were conducted in the presence of national BJP general secretary Arun Singh and joint general secretary (organisation) Sudan Singh.

Presidents of the six districts including Gajapati, Jagatsinghpur, Kandhamal, Keonjhar and Sambalpur could not be finalised and will be announced later. For the first time, presidents for block and district committees were chosen through open house consultations.

The new district presidents are as follows:

Sl. No       Name Of District         Name
1             ANGUL                     Bhagirathi Pradhan
2             BALASORE              Madan Mohan Dutta
3             BARGARH                Narayan Sahu
4             BHADRAK                Badri Narayan Dhala
5             BHUBANESWAR     Harekrushna Khuntia
6            BALANGIR                Bhaktabandhu Naik
7            BOUDH                     Soumitri Nayak
8            CUTTACK CITY        Laxmidhar Pradhan
9            CUTTACK SADAR   Choudhury Hemanta Sahu
10          DEOGARH                Arun Kumar Sahu
11          DHENKANAL          Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan
12         GANJAM                   Kahnu Charan Pati
13         GHUMUSAR            Pruthiraj Mohapatra
14         JAJPUR                      Ashutosh Parida
15         JHARSUGUDA         Radharani Panda
16         KALAHANDI             Pradipta Kumar Naik
17         KENDRAPADA          Sukanta Kumar Dwibedi
18         KHURDA                    Subash Jena
19         KORAPUT                  Bijaya Kumar Mishra
20        MALKANGIRI            Ashok Kumar Parida
21        MAYURBHANJ (Baripada)    Krushna Chandra Mohapatra
22        MAYURBHANJ(Rairangpur)         Nabin Ram
23        NABARANGPUR                  Gobinda Kumar Jain
24        NAYAGARH                   Sanyasi Nayak
25        NUAPADA                      Shiba Prasad Mund
26        PURI                            Pravanjan Mohapatra
27        RAYAGADA                Siba Sankar Ullaka
28        SUNDARGARH         Bata Kishor Mishra
29        SUNDARGARH (PANPOSH)      Jagabandhu Behera
30        SUNDARGARH (BONAI)         Rahas Bihari Pradhan