{"id":24406,"date":"2024-03-31T06:49:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T06:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/ex-congress-leader-chiranjib-biswal-joins-bjd-in-odisha-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-03-31T06:49:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T06:49:51","slug":"ex-congress-leader-chiranjib-biswal-joins-bjd-in-odisha-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/ex-congress-leader-chiranjib-biswal-joins-bjd-in-odisha-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Congress leader Chiranjib Biswal joins BJD in Odisha &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-522781\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p><strong>Bhubaneswar:<\/strong> A day after deserting the Congress ahead of the ensuing elections 2024, Chiranjib Biswal today joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha.<\/p>\n<p>The former two-time MLA and cricketer joined the regional party in the presence of BJD leaders including Rajya Sabha members Sasmit Patra and Manas Mangaraj during a programme held at Shankha Bhawan in Bhubaneswar.<\/p>\n<p>Chiranjib Biswal, the son of Congress stalwart and former Odisha Deputy Chief Minister late Basant Kumar Biswal, was first elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly on a Congress ticket from Tirtol in 2004 elections. He won the Assembly elections in 2014 from Jagatsinghpur.<\/p>\n<p>He was the Vice-President of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) and also served as a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; Bhubaneswar: A day after deserting the Congress ahead of the ensuing elections 2024, Chiranjib Biswal today joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha. The former two-time MLA and cricketer joined the regional party in the presence of BJD leaders including Rajya Sabha members Sasmit Patra and Manas Mangaraj during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24408,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406\/revisions\/24408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}