Mumbai: Elected as chief minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik is all set to take oath on Wednesday as CM of Odisha for the Fifth time.
Along with him, a 20-member Council of Ministers will also be sworn in.
Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal had invited Chief Minister and BJD President Patnaik to form the next government in the state on Sunday. The Governor appointed 11 cabinet ministers and nine state ministers on the recommendation of the Chief Minister.
The Governor’s office said in a statement that the swearing-in ceremony is to be held at 10.30 in the morning at the exhibition grounds of Bhubaneswar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other political leaders have been invited to the ceremony.
The Cabinet Ministers who will take the oath are Ranendra Pratap Swain, Bikram Keshari Arukha, Naba Kishore Das, Pratap Jena, Prafulla Kumar Mallick, Niranjan Pujari, Sudam Marndi, Susanta Singh, Tukuni Sahu, Arun Kumar Sahoo, and Padmanav Behera
The state ministers include Ashok Chandra Panda, Samir Ranjan Dash, Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, Dibya Shankar Mishra, Premananda Nayak, Raghunandan Das, Padmini Dian, Tusharkanti Behera, and Jagannath Saraka.
Elections for the 147 seats in the Odisha Legislative Assembly and 21 Lok Sabha seats were held simultaneously in the state.
Patnaik won from two Assembly segments, his home turf Hinjili under the Aska Lok Sabha seat in southern Odisha and Bijapur in the Bargarh Lok Sabha seat in western Odisha.
BJD retained 12 of the state’s 21 parliamentary seats. The party secured 112 seats in the 147-member Odisha Legislative Assembly. BJP won 23 seats and Congress managed to win nine seats. An independent and CPI (M) won one seat each.
