Bhubaneswar: Senior Advocate Ashok Parija on Wednesday assumed charge of his office as the Advocate General of Odisha.
He took the charge from erstwhile Advocate General Surya Prasad Misra.
Born in 1961, Parija was enrolled as an advocate in the Bar Council of Odisha at the age of 23. He was designated as a Senior Advocate in 2003 in the Orissa High Court.
In 2008, he was elected a member of the State Bar Council. The same year, he became a member of the Bar Council of India.
In July 2011, he was elected Chairman of the Bar Council of India.
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