By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: With their grandfather Dr Debendra Pradhan, was first BJP Union Minister and Lok Sabha MP from Odisha, father, the all powerful, Union PNG-Steel Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan and mother, a former ABVP leader, Mridula Thakur Pradhan, too have nationalist approach and having strong RSS background, Naimisha Pradhan and his brother, Nishant Pradhan, too bears the same nationalistic spirit even at a very tender age, which was spotted and praised by Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying and hardliner BJP MP from Begusarai in Bihar, Shandilya Giriraj Singh.
Union Minister Gririraj Singh was at his Cabinet Colleague Dharmendra Pradhan’s New Delhi residence to wish on Diwali and later interacted with Pradhan’s daughter Naimisha and son. During the course of interactions, the BJP MP from Begusarai in Bihar, was so impressed, he shared the photo and tweeted with few lines of praise and encouragement, sources said.
“कैबिनेट के वरिष्ठ सहयोगी आदरणीय @dpradhanbjp जी के निवास पर मिलकर उनको एवं पूरे परिवार को दीपावली की शुभकामनाएँ दी एवं बच्चों से मिलकर अच्छा लगा, बेटा उम्र में तो छोटा है पर सोच गजब की राष्ट्रवादी है ! जय महादेव !,” tweeted Shandilya Giriraj Singh @girirajsinghbjp.
Dharmendra Pradhan’s daughter Naimishra, was earlier in new while making facemasks joining hands with her mother Mridula Thakur Pradhan. During the COVID-19 lockdown crisis, Mridula Thalur Pradhan and Naimisha Pradhan were seen sitting on the floor, as they were stitching white face masks using a traditional sewing machine.
Dharmendra Pradhan started as an Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activist in 1983, and has served in ABVP as Secretary. He has also worked as an election in – charge in Bihar and as an in- charge of party affairs in Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Odisha. Pradhan currently represents Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha and was earlier a member of the 14th Lok Sabha from Odisha’s Deogarh and State Assembly from Palahara and also represented Bihar in Rajya Sabha.
