Naveen Patnaik to be sworn-in today in Bhubaneswar

A 22-member BJD-BJP coalition ministry will be sworn-in in Orissa on May 16. The new cabinet will have 14 BJD and 8 BJP members.

Published on: May 16, 2004, 16:12:00 IST

PTI | By Anonymous, Bhubaneswar

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A 22-member BJD-BJP coalition ministry headed by Naveen Patnaik will be sworn-in in Orissa this evening.

Official sources said that the BJD will have 14 members in the ministry including the Chief Minister while the BJP's representation will be eight.

All arrangements for the swearing-in ceremony at the Raj Bhavan here have been completed.

BJD sources said that though some of the senior members of the previous ministry are likely to be retained there would be some new faces as well.

Biswabhushan Harichandan, who was elected as the leader of the 32-member BJP legislature party yesterday, and the party's state president Manmohan Samal, appointed as deputy leader of the legislature party, would be ministers in the new cabinet.

The BJD-BJP combine defied the national trend to sweep the polls by claiming 61 and 32 seats respectively in the 147- member assembly.

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