Odisha BJP president to be elected in January, appointment of OPCC chief soon

The two major national political parties of Odisha- the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress – will get their respective presidents soon. While the saffron party has decided to elect its new president in January, 2025 to succeed Manmohan Samal, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) is expected to appoint the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president soon. While speaking to the media persons today, BJP’s state in-charge Vijay Pal Singh Tomar said that the organisational elections at the booth and Mandal-level have already started.

This will be followed by the election of the district presidents and after this, the election for the state president will be held in the first week of January, he added. Likewise, senior Congress MLA and legislature party leader in the Odisha Assembly Rama Chandra Kadam informed that the AICC will appoint the OPCC president soon. “Though it takes time for the selection of new OPCC president, the AICC will appoint a strong and eligible leader of the party as the next OPCC president in near future,” Kadam said adding that the party’s two observers for Odisha -senior leader Meenakshi Natarajan and Chhattisgarh Congress legislature party Charan Das Mahant- have submitted their reports to AICC after holding meetings and discussions with the MP, MLAs and senior party leaders of the state.



Congress is the only party which has implemented several schemes for the development of the State and the country while the present BJP government in Odisha has been changing the names of the schemes, alleged Kadam adding that the BJP government is not a government of game changer but a name-changer..