Bhubaneswar: Former key leaders of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) –Mahesh Chandra Hembram, Ramchandra Murmu, and many other party leaders have joined the Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Monday at a meeting in Bhubaneswar.
Hembram, the former State president of JMM, and Murmu, the former vice president of JMM’s Odisha unit joined BJD in presence of top BJD leaders including the party’s Organisation Secretary Pranab Prakash Das.
This party-changing programme was likely held because of the impending panchayat elections in Odisha.
Mahesh Hembram was the JMM candidate in the 2009 and 2014 Assembly elections from the Jashipur seat. In 2019 polls, he had contested from Saraskana Assembly Constituency. He was Odisha state JMM president from 2014 to May 2021. On August 24 this year, he had resigned from the party.
On the other hand, former JMM Odisha unit’s vice president Ramachandra Murmu had fought the 2019 elections on JMM ticket from Rairangpur Assembly Constituency.
