Rousing welcome for two Odisha Union ministers at airport

Sambad English Bureau Published On : Jun 7, 2014 at 2:32 PM Updated On : Jun 7, 2014 at 5:01 PM

Odisha Sun Times Bureau

Bhubaneswar, June 7:

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Odisha’s two Union ministers Jual Oram and Dharmendra Pradhan were accorded a rousing welcome by the BJP workers as they arrived at the airport here today.

Theywere taken in an impressive bike rally to the party headquarters here where a mega felicitation programme awaited them.

This is the first visit of the duo to the state since their appointment as ministers at the Centre.

While Oram, the Sundargarh strongman is the cabinet minister for Tribal Affairs, Pradhan a Rajya Sabha member from Bihar is a minister of state with independent charge of the important Oil and Natural Gas ministry in the Narendra Modi cabinet. It may be mentioned here that Jual Oram is the lone non-BJD MP in the new Lok Sabha.