By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: After voted out of power, Biju Janata Dal on Wednesday elected Naveen Patnaik as the leader of the legislature party and the Leader of the Opposition in the Odisha Assembly.
Patnaik announced the new post of Prasanna Acharya as the Deputy Leader of the BJD in the legislature, Pramila Mallik as the Chief Whip and Pratap Keshari Deb as the Deputy Chief Whip of the BJD.
The BJD held its legislature party meetings under the chairmanship of party chief Naveen Patnaik at Sankha Bhawan here this evening.
Patnaik said, “We just had a meeting of the BJD MLAs who have been elected to the recent elections. I congratulated and thanked them. They have elected me as the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Biju Legislative Party”.
