Naveen Patnaik makes new organisational appointments within Biju Janata Dal
Naveen Patnaik's appointed three of his senior colleagues in the Biju Janata Dal to organisational charges.
The influential Jajpur MLA, Pranab Prakash Das has been appointed General Secretary (Organisation) a position that the regional party, in power for the last 19 years, did not have until now.
BJD has just is wrapping up its membership drive and will be holding organisational poll very soon.
Party insiders say the former energy minister who lost his portfolio in a major 2017 ministerial reshuffle asked not to make a minister in Patnaik’s fifth term.