Odisha

Odisha CM Names District Observers For Polls

By
OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of this year’s civic body polls and the panchayat elections in 2022, BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday appointed 27 party men, including 10 ministers, as district observers.

The 10 ministers appointed as district observers are:

1. Naba Kishore Das–Kalahandi
2. Prafulla Mallick–Bargarh
3. Sushanta Singh–Balangir
4. Bikram Keshari Arukha–Kandhamal
5. Niranjan Pujari–Angul
6. Dibya Shankar Mishra–Keonjhar
7. Pratap Jena–Balasore
8. Ranendra Pratap Swain–Bhadrak
9. Ashok Chandra Panda–Jajpur
10. Padmanabha Behera–Jharsuguda

Besides, the remaining observers for the 20 districts are:
1. Sanjay Das Burma–Nabarangpur and Rayagada
2. Chandra Sarathi Behera–Koraput and Malkangiri
3. Maheswar Mohanty–Ganjam
4. Purna Chandra Swain–Gajapati
5. Bijaya Nayak–Dhenkanal
6. Krutibasha Patra–Boudh
7. Nalini Kanta Pradhan–Sambalpur and Deogarh
8. Priti Ranjan Ghadai–Sundargarh
9. Pranab Prakash Das–Mayurbhanj
10. Pramila Mallik–Kendrapara
11. Debashish Samantray–Jagatsinghpur
12. Pradip Kumar Amat–Puri
13. Prasanna Acharya–Khurda
14. Soubhagya Nayak–Nuapada
15. Usha Devi–Cuttack
16. Amar Prasad Satpathy–Nayagarh
17. Ayub Khan-Sonepur

OB Bureau

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