{"id":24884,"date":"2024-04-07T07:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T07:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/07\/former-odisha-minister-ganeswar-behera-joins-bjd-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-04-07T07:20:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T07:20:35","slug":"former-odisha-minister-ganeswar-behera-joins-bjd-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/07\/former-odisha-minister-ganeswar-behera-joins-bjd-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Odisha Minister Ganeswar Behera joins BJD &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-523709\">&#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> After BJP leader Lekhasri, former minister Ganeswar Behera joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha today.<\/p>\n<p>The former senior Congress leader was officially inducted into the regional party during a programme at Shankha Bhawan in Bhubaneswar.<\/p>\n<p>Ganeswar Behera had resigned from the primary membership of the Congress five days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Several Congress leaders including the former working president of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) and ex-MLA Chiranjib Biswal, former minister Surendra Singh Bhoi, sitting MLA Adhiran Panigrahi, ex-MLA K Surya Rao and Ansuman Mohanty have joined the BJD in the recent past.<\/p>\n<p>With the induction of Behera into the BJD, the party is likely to field him from the Kendrapara Assembly segment which is reserved for the scheduled caste candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Behera had contested the 2019 polls from Kendrapara seat on the Congress ticket but lost to BJD\u2019s Shashi Bhusan Behera.<\/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: After BJP leader Lekhasri, former minister Ganeswar Behera joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha today. The former senior Congress leader was officially inducted into the regional party during a programme at Shankha Bhawan in Bhubaneswar. Ganeswar Behera had resigned from the primary membership of the Congress five days [&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-24884","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\/24884","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=24884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24886,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24884\/revisions\/24886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}