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The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) entrusted senior leaders with key responsibilities across various party wings, cells, and appointed new presidents in the six remaining organisational districts. Accordingly, the BJD named 71 senior leaders as state office bearers on Monday.
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71 state office bearers are:
The newly-appointed senior Vice-Presidents are Debi Prasad Mishra (Headquarters), Prafulla Samal, Usha Devi, Bikram Keshari Arukh, Pramila Mallick, Niranjan Pujari, and Chandra Sekhar Sahu.
The Vice-Presidents include Pratap Jena (Headquarters), Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Rajendra Dholakia, Sanjay Kumar Das Burma, Rabi Narayan Nanda (Jeypore), Ashwini Kumar Patra, Pranab Prakash Das, and Sarada Prasad Nayak.
The party has appointed Subash Singh as the Treasurer.
The Senior General Secretaries are Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo, Priti Ranjan Gharai, Ramesh Chandra Majhi, Tukuni Sahu, Dibya Shankar Mishra, Bhrugu Buxipatra, Pradip Majhi, Debesh Acharya, Purna Chandra Swain, Dhruba Charan Sahoo, Sushant Singh, Sudhir Samal, Ananta Narayan Jena, Lekhasri Samantsinghar, Rajashree Mallick, Manas Mangaraj, Byomkesh Ray, Pranab Balabantaray, Snehangini Chhuria, and Jagannath Saraka.
The General Secretaries include Tuskarkanti Behera, Souvic Biswal, Sarada Prasanna Jena, Basanti Hembram, Sulochana Das, Bijaya Nayak, Geeta Bastia, Lopamudra Buxipatra, Shreemayee Mishra, Prafulla Singh, Goutam Buddha Das, Sanjib Mallick, Prasanta Behera, Chakramani Kanhar, Pradip Disari, Sushanta Rout, Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantray, Adhiraj Panigrahi, Sulata Deo, Subhasis Khuntia, Sarmishtha Sethy, Anshuman Mohanty, Manmath Routray, Mukesh Pal, Swarup Das, Sukanta Nayak, Rita Sahu, Niranjan Bisi, Srikanta Sahu, Dipali Das, Jagannath Naik, Madhab Sardar, Rajendra Sahu, Prabhu Jani, and Girish Das.
Six district presidents are:
The six newly elected district presidents are Ashish Chakraborty (Keonjhar), Ashok Chandra Panda (Bhubaneswar), Pradyumna Tripathy (Rourkela), Dr. Debashis Marandi (Mayurbhanj-2), Rohit Pujari (Sambalpur), and Saroj Kumar Meher (Bolangir).
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This move highlights the party's strategy to strengthen its internal structure and grassroots outreach ahead of upcoming political challenges.
