Bhubaneswar: Odisha will soon get a new chief minister after the BJP selects its leader for the top job at the legislature party meeting underway in Bhubaneswar today.
The state will get a new chief minister after the 24-year rule of the BJD’s Naveen Patnaik. Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Bhupender Yadav are present in the legislature party meeting as observers.
As Sambalpur MP Dharmendra Pradhan became a minister in the third Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet, the focus is now on Suresh Pujari, who was elected from Brajarajnagar assembly seat, and BJP’s Odisha unit president Manmohan Samal, a party leader said.
Even though Samal was defeated in the assembly polls in the Chandbali seat by a margin of 1,916 votes, his name was being considered for the CM’s post as he contributed immensely to the party’s victory.
Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) and ex-Lieutenant Governor of J&K Girish Murmu, who served as Modi’s former principal secretary when he was the Gujarat CM, is also among the names doing the rounds.
