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Tribal leader and four- time MLA Mohan Charan Majhi was sworn in as the first Bharatiya Janata Party chief minister of Odisha at a ceremony in Bhubaneswar attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several Union ministers and chief ministers.
Senior BJP leader and Patnagarh MLA KV Singh Deo and debutant from Nimapara assembly segment Pravati Parida took oath as deputy chief ministers.
Governor Rabghubar Das administered the oath of secrecy and office to them at Janata Maidan.
This is the first time that a BJP government has been formed in the eastern state.
Apart from Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda, Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Bhupender Yadav, Dharmendra Pradhan, Jual Oram, Ashwini Vaishnaw and others attended the ceremony.
Several chief ministers of BJP-ruled states including Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand were also present.
Odisha’s outgoing chief minister Naveen Patnaik also attended the ceremony.
