ODISHA : Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal administered the Oath of Office to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the Exhibition Ground in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday.
Mr. Patnaik has been sworn in for a record fifth time.
Eleven Cabinet ministers and nine Ministers of State were also sworn in.
The 11 Cabinet ministers are: Ranendra Pratap Swain, Bikram Keshari Arukha, Prafulla Mallick, Niranjan Pujari, Padmanabha Behera, Pratap Jena, Arun Kumar Sahoo, Sudam Marandi, Sushant Singh, Naba Kishore Das, and Tukuni Sahu.
The nine Ministers of State are: Ashok Chandra Panda, Sameer Ranjan Dash, Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, Dibya Shankar Mishra, Premananda Nayak, Raghunandan Das, Padmini Dian, Tusharkanti Behera and Jagannath Saraka.
Mr. Patnaik’s Cabinet includes 10 new faces, of which two are women.
Mr. Patnaik’s siblings — writer Gita Mehta and industrialist Prem Patnaik — were also present at the swearing-in ceremony.
Hundreds of women self-help group members from different parts of the State were invited to attend the ceremony. (agencies)
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