BJD MLA and former minister Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, who quit the party on Wednesday after being denied a poll ticket, reversed his decision a day later following the intervention of CM and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik, reported. Naveen called Panigrahi to his residence on Thursday and appointed him the party's Balasore district unit chief in place of Aswini Kumar Patra, who was, in turn, made BJD's senior general secretary.
"I reconsidered my decision to withdraw my resignation letter after a discussion with the CM," Panigrahi told TOI.
Debabrata Mohapatra is an Assistant Editor at The Times of India,...
Read MoreDebabrata Mohapatra is an Assistant Editor at The Times of India, Bhubaneswar. He had been writing for TOI from Puri since 2006 before joining the Bhubaneswar bureau in August 2010. He covers crime, law & order and Congress.
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