Odisha MP Baijayant Panda Appointed BJP’s Election In-Charge For Delhi Polls

Bhubaneswar: BJP president JP Nadda on Tuesday appointed Kendrapada MP Baijayant Panda as the party’s in-charge for Delhi assembly elections.

Panda is the national vice-president of the saffron party.

Similarly, party MP Atul Garg has been appointed as the co-incharge for Delhi polls, a letter issued by BJP’s national general secretary Arun Singh stated.

The national capital is set to vote in February 2025.

Notably, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who is also an MP from Odisha’s Sambalpur, was the BJP election in-charge for Haryana and helped the party score a hat trick, defying anti-incumbency in the recently concluded polls in the state.

The BJP had performed exceptionally well in the last Lok Sabha polls in Odisha winning 20 of 21 seats. It also formed its maiden government in the state by bagging a majority with 74 seats in the Assembly polls while drawing curtains on 24-year rule of Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government.