Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal’s founding member and six-time Cuttack Lok Sabha member Bhartruhari Mahtab joined the BJP in New Delhi on Thursday.
Together with him, former BJD MP Sidhant Mohapatra and noted Santali litterateur Damayanti Beshra, who was conferred the Padma Shri in 2020, also joined the BJP in the presence of Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, celebration countrywide vice-president Baijayant Panda and other senior leaders.
Following joining the BJP, Mahtab reported he will now get the prospect to work for the development of Odisha. Odisha is ”going to” witness a ”change” owing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s management, he included. Mahtab had resigned from the main membership of the BJD very last Friday.
Sidhant Mohapatra mentioned, “Key Minister Modi’s double engine federal government has to be introduced in Odisha.”