Bhubaneswar: Lok Sabha member from Odisha’s Mayurbhanj and state BJP’s ST Morcha president, Bishweswar Tudu took oath as Minister of State (MoS) in Narendra Modi government at the Rashtrapati Bhawan today evening.
The tribal face of Odisha, is a first time MP from Mayurbhanj constituency.
Tudu represents Mayurbhanj where BJP has a strong presence. The region is critical to the party as the population of Santhals is high and it plays an important role not only in Odisha but also in neighbouring Jharkhand’s politics.
Tudu is believed to have been picked up for the Cabinet MoS berth after Draupadi Murmu’s tenure as Jharkhand Governor ended recently. The saffron party was left without a tribal face in Odisha ater Murmu’s tenure ended and Sundargarh MP Jual Oram, also former Union tribal affairs minister, could not make it to Modi 2.0.
