Mayurbhanj district’s Rairangpur Assembly constituency’s 2019 election MLA candidate and BJP district executive member Kashinath Hembram along with about 400 BJP workers, including elected representatives, joined the BJD here on Thursday.
BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik, welcoming all of them, said that their joining would strengthen the party in the Rairangpur constituency as well as in Mayurbhanj district as a whole.
MLA Debasish Samantaray, Mayurbhanj district president and MLA Pravin Chandra Bhanjadeo and BJD State secretary Bijay Nayak, among others, were present on this occasion.