Odisha New Chief Minister: Who is BJP's first Chief Minister in Odisha? Put this name forward

New Chief Minister of Odisha: Bharatiya Janata Party has won 78 seats out of 147 assembly constituencies in Odisha. The Congress has won 14 seats and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) one, while three independent candidates have won. Naveen Patnaik resigns as chief minister Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday resigned as chief minister of Odisha after his party's defeat in the state assembly elections, ending his 24-year rule. Patnaik submitted his resignation letter to Governor Raghubar Das at Raj Bhavan. Who will be the first Chief Minister of BJP to form government in Odisha for the first time? Many names are leading the race for the post of chief minister. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is taking the lead in this. Dharmendra Pradhan is a resident of Talser, Odisha. He was a minister in the BJD government from 1997 to 2000. After that, in 2004, Puri won the Lok Sabha seat and became an MP. Later he became a Union Minister after recording overwhelming victories in 2009, 2014 and 2019. Pradhan's claim is considered strong because in the current election he formulated a strategy for Odisha and because of that BJP's performance was better. These names are also leading the race for the chief ministerial post, while another name is leading the race to become the BJP's first chief minister in Odisha. His name is Suresh Pujari. Pujari won Odisha's Bargar Lok Sabha constituency and became an MP. Pujari contested the current assembly election from Brajrajnagar constituency and registered a landslide victory by a margin of 26789 votes. Pratap Chandra Sarangi Pratap Chandra Sarangi is also leading in the race for the post of Chief Minister. After registering a landslide victory in 2019, he entered the Lok Sabha for the first time. Sarangi became famous for swearing in Sanskrit. He won the Balasore constituency in the current Lok Sabha elections and became MP for the second time. He defeated the BJD candidate by a margin of 147156. Apart from these names some other names are also coming up. It also includes Baijayant Panda, PK Mishra and Girish Chandra Murmu. The post Odisha's New Chief Minister: Who is BJP's first CM in Odisha? This name is further traced and first appears in Prabhat Kabar.