Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Retired bureaucrat Asit Kumar Tripathy defeated his rival Bijay Kumar Patnaik and is now elected as the President of Bhubaneswar Club with 278 votes. Tripathy, a 1986 batch IAS officer, secured 776 votes compared to Patnaik, also a former Odisha Chief Secretary and 1976 batch IAS officer, who got 498 votes.
According to the reports, 1996 batch IAS officer Vishal Dev was elected secretary of the premier club in an election that turned out to be a prestige issue not only for the contestants but also brought the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) into discussions because Tripathy, after retirement as Odisha’s Chief Secretary in December 2020, has been serving as Principal Advisor to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Chairman of Western Odisha Development Council. He is currently posted as Odisha’s Finance Secretary and beats outgoing secretary Ashok Chinchela, a chartered accountant, to become secretary of the club, established in 1949.
The report further added businessman Mahendra Gupta (vice-president) and Ashok Mishra (joint secretary) – also won the polls along with Debabrata Biswal, Parthajeet Patnaik, Tutul Kishore Das, Pragati Kumar Mohanty, Sarat Chandra Bhadra and P V Mohan who were elected to the executive committee.
Others who contested the elections for the post of secretary were Dewa Shankar Tripathy, Partha Sarathi Panigrahi, Jyoshnamayee Panda and Damodar Pradhani. For the post of vice-president Jayanta Kumar Hota, Tapesh Roy, Dewa Shankar Tripathy and Aroon Birla were also in the fray, while Koushik Mohapatra and Jyotirmoy Mohanty were vying for the post of joint secretary.
