BJD: A Party in the Hand of Inexperienced

Bhubaneswar (Surjit Kumar Dhal): The Biju Janata Dal has released a list of headless youth and student’s officials. Youths’ and students’ discontent in the BJD has intensified since the list was released. The inexperienced leader in charge of selection has been accused of giving arbitrary posts to his followers instead of consulting with experienced leaders.

Even those who have been involved in student and youth politics and given their valuable time to the BJD have been widely ignored. Some senior student and youth leader have been provided with lower responsibilities. This discontentment is now viral on many social media platforms. The most important of these allegations is that, the qualified student leaders did not get any position, while one particular person got positions in both the youth and student wing, which surprised everyone.

Bhabani Shankar Dash of Choudwar-Cuttack constituency has been included as the vice-president of the youth BJD list, while aspirants are posting their grievances on social media, expressing their displeasure over how he was renamed as student vice-president again. A minister and a legislator have also lobbied for Bhabani Shankar. Despite the fact that there are many eligible candidates. The release of such a list and the fact that even 10 of the newly named persons are unknown to the selectors. In a regional party like Biju Janata Dal, such a huge officials are not even seen in a national party.