BJD Dissolves Its State-Level Frontal Organisations After Appointing Returning Officer For Polls

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has dissolved its state-level frontal organisations, including women, youth, students’, labour front and legal cell, in view of the party’s forthcoming organisational elections in Odisha.

“All the State level Frontal Organisations of Biju Janata Dal such as Biju Mahila Janata Dal, Biju Yuva Janata Dal, Biju Chhatra Janata Dal, Biju Shramika Samukhya, Legal Cell, Apravasi Cell are hereby dissolved with immediate effect in view of the forthcoming Organisational Election of the Party,” read the office order issued by party president Naveen Patnaik on Saturday.

Earlier, the party had appointed senior party leader and MLA Pratap Keshari Deb as the state returning officer for the organisational polls, which will be conducted in four phases.

Deb, who has been assigned the responsibility for the third consecutive time, told mediapersons that elections will be held first at the grassroots level, and later at the block, district level and state levels. “For that an election schedule will be prepared and election conducting and monitoring officers will be appointed then the process will start soon,” he said, adding that the whole process will be completed within three months.

The BJD aims to strengthen its organisation from the grassroots to the state level keeping in view of the Panchayat and urban local body elections slated for 2027.