Bhubaneswar, June 23: As many as 10 MLAs of Odisha BJP will be present during the nomination filing of Draupadi Murmu for the upcoming presidential elections in New Delhi on Friday.  

BJD chief and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has deputed two cabinet ministers, a tribal (Jagannath Saraka) and another woman (Tukuni Sahu) to sign the nomination papers of NDA nominee Murmu.

The Chief Minister has already appealed all MLAs to support Murmu, daughter of the soil.