Bhubaneswar, March 4 -- In the run-up to the simultaneous Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Odisha, two former MLAs and a sitting BJD MLA joined the
BJP on Monday.
They are former minister and sitting BJD MLA from Telkoi Assembly seat Premananda Nayak, former MLAs Naren Pallai and Rajendra Kumar Das. Several followers of these three political leaders also joined the BJP.
BJP Odisha unit President Manmohan Samal inducted them into the party fold at a function in the state headquarters office here.
Premananda is the second sitting BJD MLA to join the BJP. Earlier Jayadev MLA Arabinda Dhali had also quit the party and joined the BJP. Two sitting MLAs Pradeep Panigrahi from the Gopalpur Assembly seat and Prashant Jagdeb from the Chilika A...