Former Nalco CMD, 5 ex-servicemen join Odisha BJP

Bhubaneswar, Mar 6 (PTI):Tapan kumar chand ,known as former CMD of Nalco,and including 5 other Ex-service man of Nalco joined the opposition BJP in odisha,As the elections are Round the corner for lok sabha and odisha assembly.Manmohan Samal greeted Chand, Bhartiya party’s odisa unit president, and others also joined the saffron  party here.

A student Union president of Utkal university,Chand,former student leader affiliated to the Akhil Bharatiya vidyarthi parishad(ABVP). He was a full-time CMD of Navratna PSU, National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) on July 25, 2015. Two years later, he joined as the director of Central Coalfields Limited. He also served in Vedanta as Resident Director of Odisha and Chhattisgarh and has over three decades of experience in the mining and metal sector, Samal said.

Among Of the five ex-servicemen, three had served in the Navy, while the other two had IAF backgrounds, Samal said.Earlier, on March 3, former IAS officer Hrusikesh Panda, retired Air Marshal of Indian Air Force Dilip Kumar Patnaik, and former Joint Secretary of Rajya Sabha Ramakanta Das had joined the Odisha unit of the BJP. Besides, four sitting MLAs and six ex-MLAs have joined the BJP so far, party sources said. PTI AAM SBN AAM SBN.