Bhubaneswar, Feb 9: Ahead of the elections to the three Rajya Sabha seats in Odisha, Corporate leader Santrupt Misra joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) here on Friday.

Misra formally joined the BJD after meeting Chief Minister and party president Naveen Patnaik at Naveen Niwas here.

“I welcome Santrupt Misra to the Biju Janata Dal. He left an important post in the corporate world to help us in good work,” Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said.

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Soon after the joining, Misra was appointed the BJD’s national spokesperson with immediate effect. The party supremo also appointed senior leader Sanjay Kumar Dasburma as Spokesperson of the regional party.

“I will take up any work assigned to me by the BJD leadership and abide by party discipline. I joined the BJD after being inspired by the ideology, personality and people-oriented work of the Chief minister,” Misra said.

A native of Puri, Misra was the Global Director of Human Resources as well as Group Director of Birla Carbon and Director of Chemicals. He left Aditya Birla Group after nearly three decades.

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