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Senior chief and former minister Manmohan Samal again as BJP’s Odisha president

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By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Ahead of the 2024 elections, the BJP has modified its state management and appointed senior chief and former minister Manmohan Samal because the occasion’s Odisha unit president.

BJP National President Jagat Prakash Nadda made the recent appointments of heads of three states, together with Odisha, on Thursday.

Samal, 64, who had served as occasion president twice in 1998 and 2000, changed Samir Mohanty because the chief of the Odisha BJP.

He was first elected to the legislative meeting from Dhamnagar constituency in 2004 and have become Revenue and Disaster Management Minister within the BJP-BJD coalition authorities.

The senior BJP chief needed to resign from his put up in December 2008 over his alleged sexcapades at Odisha Niwas in New Delhi. He had then unsuccessfully contested the meeting elections from Bhandaripokhari and Chandabali in 2009 and 2014.

Known for his organisational management, Samal is alleged to have been rewarded by being reappointed because the state BJP president for the occasion’s splendid efficiency within the just lately concluded Dhamnagar by-poll. As in-charge of the by-poll, he ensured the victory of BJP candidate Suraj Suryavanshi, dealing an enormous blow to the ruling BJD.

Starting his profession in scholar politics whereas finding out in Bhadrak school, Samal was elected president of the school college students union in 1979 and held numerous posts within the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthy Parishad (ABVP). He had joined the BJP in 1982 and was additionally elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2000.

Samal was a member of the committee on Urban and Rural Development in 2000 and member of consultative committee for the Ministry of Railways.

BHUBANESWAR: Ahead of the 2024 elections, the BJP has modified its state management and appointed senior chief and former minister Manmohan Samal because the occasion’s Odisha unit president.

BJP National President Jagat Prakash Nadda made the recent appointments of heads of three states, together with Odisha, on Thursday.

Samal, 64, who had served as occasion president twice in 1998 and 2000, changed Samir Mohanty because the chief of the Odisha BJP.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

He was first elected to the legislative meeting from Dhamnagar constituency in 2004 and have become Revenue and Disaster Management Minister within the BJP-BJD coalition authorities.

The senior BJP chief needed to resign from his put up in December 2008 over his alleged sexcapades at Odisha Niwas in New Delhi. He had then unsuccessfully contested the meeting elections from Bhandaripokhari and Chandabali in 2009 and 2014.

Known for his organisational management, Samal is alleged to have been rewarded by being reappointed because the state BJP president for the occasion’s splendid efficiency within the just lately concluded Dhamnagar by-poll. As in-charge of the by-poll, he ensured the victory of BJP candidate Suraj Suryavanshi, dealing an enormous blow to the ruling BJD.

Starting his profession in scholar politics whereas finding out in Bhadrak school, Samal was elected president of the school college students union in 1979 and held numerous posts within the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthy Parishad (ABVP). He had joined the BJP in 1982 and was additionally elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2000.

Samal was a member of the committee on Urban and Rural Development in 2000 and member of consultative committee for the Ministry of Railways.