Bhubaneswar, June 9: In a change of plans, the swearing-in ceremony of the new Chief Minister of Odisha will take place on June 12 instead of previously scheduled June 10.
Though the preparations for the oath-taking ceremony are underway in full-wing, the saffron is yet to finalise who will be the first BJP Chief Minister of the state.
The ceremony will be held at the Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar after the meeting of the BJP’s legislature party.
The BJP’s 78-member legislature party meeting has been convened to formally elect the leader in the presence of two party central observers. Several names of Chief Minister probables are doing the rounds.
Prominent among those are six-time MP and former Union Minister Jual Oram, senior BJP leader and MP Dharmendra Pradhan, newly elected MLAs Suresh Pujari, and Mohan Charan Majhi.
State BJP president Manmohan Samal had earlier said that he is not in the race for the top post.