Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal President Naveen Patnaik will be the Leader of Opposition in the 17th Odisha Legislative Assembly.
This has been unanimously decided at the BJD legislature party meeting held at Sankha Bhawan here on Wednesday.
Talking to media, Naveen said, “We just had a meeting of the BJD MLAs who have been elected to the recent elections. I congratulated and thanked them. They have elected me as the LoP and the leader of the Biju Legislative Party”.
The BJD supremo has announced the new post of Prasanna Acharya as the Deputy Leader of the BJD in the legislature, Pramila Mallik as the Chief Whip and Pratap Keshari Deb as the Deputy Chief Whip of the BJD.
It is worth noting that the Biju Janata Dal has won 51 seats in the recently concluded 17th Assembly Elections in the State.