Former NALCO Head Tapan Chand Joins BJP

Bhubaneswar: Tapan Chand, the former Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of NALCO joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday. Chand has over 3 decades of experience in the mining and metal sector.

According to reports, during his student days, Chand was an active member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and was also the students’ union president of Utkal University. He took charge as full-time CMD of NALCO on July 25, 2015. In 2017, he joined as the director of Central Coalfields Limited. He has also served Vedanta as Resident Director of Odisha and Chhattisgarh.

In recent past several leaders have joined the BJP in Odisha. They include former Odisha Minister Nabin Chandra Narayan Das, Telkoi MLA and former Minister Pramenanda Nayak and former legislator Rajendra Das.