BJD Announces Appointment Of District Presidents

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik on Friday announced the  list of presidents of 33 organisational districts.

The list includes three minister – Sudam Marandi, Tukuni Sahoo and Prafulla Mallick. Sarada Nayak, a senior MLA who could not get a minister berth, has been named as a president. Two BJD leaders, Rabindra Jena and Pushpendra Singh Deo, who lost the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, also feature in the list.

The list of the district presidents is as follows:

Angul: Mahendra Bastia
Balasore: Rabindra Kumar Jena
Bargarh: Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha
Bhadrak: Jagannath Swain
Bhubaneswar: Ananta Narayan Jena
Balangir: Tukuni Sahoo
Boudh: Mahidhar Rana
Cuttack: Debasish Samantray
Deogarh: Romanch Ranjan Biswal
Dhenkanal: Prafulla Mallick
Gajapati-Pradip Nayak
Ganjam: Ramesh Chandra Chayupattanaik
Jagatsinghpur: Prasanta Muduli
Jajpur: Saroj Mohapatra
Jharsuguda: Kishore Mohanty
Kalahandi: Pushpendra Singh Deo
Kandhamal: Saroj Kumar Karna
Kendrapara: Utkal Keshari Parida
Keonjhar: Madhab Sardar
Khurda: Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray
Koraput: Ishwar Panigrahi
Malkangiri: Purna Chandra Baka
Mayurbhanj Sadar: Sudam Marandi
Mayurbhanj: Kashinath Hembram
Nabarangpur: Ramesh Chandra Majhi
Nayagarh: Ramesh Behera
Nuapada: Manoj Mishra
Puri: Maheswar Mohanty
Rayagada: Sudhir Das
Rourkela: Sarada Prasad Nayak
Sambalpur: Sidharth Das
Sonepur: Saroj Kampa
Sundargarh: Binay Toppo