Days after former Rajya Sabha MP Mamata Mahanta switched over to BJP from BJD, BJP MLA Ashok Mohanty said other BJD members will also join the BJP in the coming days and the party will welcome them all.
The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Monday announced the names of a 15-member coordination committee for coordinating various activities of Biju Janata Dal throughout the state.
Odisha BJP MLA Ashok Mohanty said that the BJD leaders have lost their trust in Naveen Patnaik after Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Mamata Mohanta resigned from the Rajya Sabha and also from the party on Wednesday.
Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday announced that he has received the resignation letter of Rajya Sabha MP Mamata Suganta and has accepted her resignation with immediate effect.
After concluding his four-day visit to New Delhi, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi places special emphasis on the development of Odisha and that there will be significant changes in the state in the next five years.
The Rs 2.65 lakh crore budget for the 2024-25 fiscal was presented by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, who also holds the finance portfolio, on Thursday.
"The state BJP said they would present a game-changing budget; instead, they have presented only a name-changing budget. 80 per cent of their schemes that they have presented have already been presented by our BJD government," Naveen Patnaik told reporters.
BJD Vice President Debi Prasad Mishra expressed disappointment against Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi for not raising the demand for special category status for the state in the NITI Aayog meeting that was held on Saturday (July 27).
Biju Janata Dal leader Saurabh Srivastava on Thursday thanked former Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik after the BJD chief informed that he would continue as the media coordinator of the party.