Subhechcha Ganguly 
Mohan Charan Majhi, 52, will take over as Odisha’s chief minister, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Tuesday. On Wednesday afternoon, Majhi, who succeeds Hemanand Biswal and Giridhar Gamang as the state’s third tribal chief minister, will take an oath of office.From the Keonjhar Sadar, a tribal constituency reserved for them in Keonjhar’s mining belt, Majhi was elected. Out of the 14 chief ministers in the state, just two, Hemanand Biswal and Giridhar Gamang, are from the tribal community, which comprises more than 22% of the state’s population.
The two deputy chief ministers will be Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, a former minister and royal of the Patnagarh estate who won the Patnagarh assembly seat in Bolangir, and Pravati Parida, a distinguished women leader from the Nimapara seat in the seaside Puri district.BJP members flocked to the legislative party meeting at the party’s State headquarters in Bhubaneswar shortly after Majhi’s name was revealed, yelling praises for the newly anointed chief minister and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
