Bhubaneswar: BJD Supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced the appointments of 36 party leaders as state level general secretaries of the party.
All leaders have been assigned specific duties. The names of the leaders along with the responsibilities are as below:
1. Sushanta Singh (In charge of Sashakta Odisha); 2. Chandra Sarathi Behera (In charge of S.C. Empowerment); 3. Manohar Randhari (In charge of Sashakta Odisha); 4. Purna Chandra Swain (In charge of Social Welfare); 5. Snehangini Chhuria (In charge of S.C. Empowerment); 6. Jagannath Saraka (In charge of Tribal Empowerment and Minority Affairs); 7. Haji Md. Ayub Khan (In charge of Minority Affairs); 8. Debesh Acharya (In charge of Odisha: Mo Paribar); 9. Umakanta Samantaray (In charge of Social Welfare); 10. Byomkesh Ray (In charge of Student Affairs); 11. Ananta Narayan Jena (In charge of Sashakta Odisha); 12. Rajashree Mallick (In charge of Women Empowerment); 13. Priyadarshi Mishra (In charge of Art, Culture and Human Resource Development); 14. Dhruba Charan Sahoo (In charge of Environment); 15. Pranab Kumar Balabantaray (In charge of Youth Affairs); 16. Dr Raseswari Panigrahi (In charge of Regional Development); 17. Rajib Lochan Patra (In charge of Social Welfare); 18. Sudhir Kumar Samal (In charge of Odisha: Mo Paribar); 19. Dr Sasmit Patra (In charge of Odisha: Mo Paribar); 20. Bikram Panda (In charge of Odisha: Mo Paribar); 21. Jogesh Singh (In charge of Tribal Empowerment and Minority Affairs); 22. Basanti Hembram (In charge of Tribal Empowerment and Minority Affairs); 23. Bijaya Kumar Nayak (In charge of Regional Development); 24. Lopamudra Buxipatra (In charge of Women Empowerment); 25. Geeta Bastia (In charge of Women Empowerment); 26. Shreemayee Sweta Snigdha Mishra (In charge of Women Empowerment); 27. Prafulla Singh (In charge of Social Welfare); 28. Debasis Marndi (In charge of Tribal Empowerment and Minority Affairs); 29. Manash Mangaraj (In charge of Media Affairs); 30. Janmejaya Lenka (In charge of Art Culture and Human Resource Development); 31. Biswajit Mohanty (In charge of Sashakta Odisha); 32. Satyabrata Patra (In charge of Art, Culture and Human Resource Development); 33. Sarada Prasanna Jena (In charge of Art, Culture and Human Resource Development); 34. Gitanjali Sethi (In charge of S.C. Empowerment); 35. Pramod Kishore Jena (In charge of Environment); 36. Shyama Prasad Behera (In charge of Regional Development).