Bhubaneswar, Jan 26: Ahead of the forthcoming organizational election of the party, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Sunday dissolved all its state-level frontal organizations.
“All the State level Frontal Organisations of Biju Janata Dal such as Biju Mahila Janata Dal, Biju Yuva Janata Dal, Biju Chhatra Janata Dal, Biju Shramika Samukhya, Legal Cell, Apravasi Cell are hereby dissolved with immediate effect in view of the forthcoming Organisational Election of the Party,” read an office order issued by the BJD.
BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik has appointed senior party leader and MLA Pratap Keshari Deb as the state returning officer for the organizational polls for the third consecutive time.
According to Deb, the elections to various party organizational bodies will be conducted in four phases – grassroots level, block level, district level and then the state level.
He further announced that an election schedule would soon be finalized, and officers responsible for conducting and monitoring the organizational elections would be appointed.
Deb also informed the media that the entire process of organizational polls would be completed within three months.
The conch party aims to strengthen its organization from the grassroots to the state level, with a focus on the Panchayat and Urban Local Body polls scheduled for 2027.
