N Chandrabhau Naidu and Mohan Charan Majhi will take oath as Chief Ministers today.
New Delhi:
Governments led by the BJP and its ally the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will take charge of the governments of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh respectively after swearing-in ceremonies are held in both states today.
Here are the top 10 takeaways from this big news story:
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TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu today took oath as Andhra Chief Minister for the fourth time following the party’s landslide victory in the state assembly elections held alongside the general elections.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP leader and Health Minister JP Nadda, attended a grand ceremony on the outskirts of Vijayawada. The Prime Minister congratulated Naidu with a hug after he was sworn in.
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Besides Naidu, Jana Sena leader Pawan Kalyan also took oath today. The NDA’s ally, Jana Sena, won 21 seats in the assembly elections.
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Naidu’s TDP was one of the major allied parties that helped the BJP form the government this time, although it fell short of the 272-vote majority.
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Besides Naidu, his son Nara Lokesh and actor, politician and Janasena Party leader Pawan Kalyan are also expected to take oath today.
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The NDA alliance, consisting of the TDP, Jana Sena and BJP, won 164 seats in the 175-seat Assembly. The alliance also won a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections, winning 21 of the 25 seats in Andhra state, destroying the incumbent YSR Congress party.
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In Odisha, Mohan Charan Majhi will be sworn in as Chief Minister of the state this afternoon in a ceremony which is expected to be attended by the Prime Minister.
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The BJP’s victories in these state elections marked the end of two decades of rule by the Biju Janata Dal and its leader Naveen Patnaik, who narrowly missed out on becoming India’s longest serving prime minister.
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The BJP’s nominee for chief minister is a four-time state assembly member and a tribal leader elected from Keonjhar assembly constituency.
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The BJP has elected two deputy chief ministers, KV Singh Deo and Pravati Parida. Deo is a six-time state assembly member and a descendant of a former royal family. He served as a minister in the Naveen Patnaik government when the BJP and BJD were in coalition government. Pravati Parida is a first-time member of the state assembly and previously led the state BJP women’s wing.
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