Lagatar24 Desk
Bhubaneswar, June 5: The Odisha government’s new cabinet was sworn in on Sunday, in a major reshuffling by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in an attempt to give his cabinet a fresh appearance ahead of the 2024 General and Assembly elections.
At Patnaik’s request, all 20 ministers and state assembly speaker Surjya Patro submitted their resignations on Saturday.
Notably, seven of the resigned ministers were first-time ministers. For the first time in Odisha’s political history, all ministers have been ordered to resign.
In the presence of Patnaik, 13 cabinet ministers and eight independent charge ministers were sworn in at the Convention Centre in Lok Seva Bhawan, Bhubaneswar.
Jagannath Saraka, Tukuni Sahu, Pramila Mallik, Ranendra Pratap Swain, Tusharkanti Behera, Naba Kishore Das, Samir Ranjan Dash, Pratap Keshari Deb, Atanu Sabyasachi, Rohit Pujari, and Rajendra Dholakia are the cabinet members that took oath today.
Sabita Hembram, Srikanta Sahu, Aswini Patra, Ashok Panda, Usha Devi, Niranjan Pujari, Priti Ranjan Ghadei, Pradip Amat and Rita Sahu took oath as ministers with independent charge.
