Team News Riveting
Bhubaneswar, June 12
Mohan Charan Majhi on Wednesday took oath as the Chief Minister of first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Odisha.
The swearing-in ceremony was held at Janata Maidan on Wednesday evening. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda, Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Bhupender Yadav, Dharmendra Pradhan, Jual Oram, Ashwini Vaishnaw and others were present on the occasion.
Odisha Governor Raghubar Das administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new Chief Minister. Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled states were also present in the ceremony.
Majhi became the first Chief Minister of the BJP even as the saffron party trounced the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) to end the 24-year-old rule of Naveen Patnaik in the state.
Representing the Keonjhar assembly constituency, Majhi defeated his nearest BJP candidate Mina Majhi by a margin of around 87,815 votes.
BJP leaders Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo and Pravati Parida were also sworn-in as Deputy Chief Ministers of Odisha. In the 2024 Assembly elections, Deo defeated BJD’s Saroj Kumar Meher by a margin of 9,3823 votes, while Parida won the Nimapara seat by defeating BJD’s Dilip Kumar Nayak with a margin of 4,588 votes. Notably, the BJP had ruled the state as an alliance partner of the BJD in 2000 and 2004 and this is the first time that the party formed the government on its own in Odisha.
