Odisha’s Former Chief Secretary to Join Congress

Bhubaneswar: The former chief secretary of Odisha, Bijay Patnaik will join the Congress on Thursday. He will be officially included in the party at the headquarters of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in New Delhi.

According to sources, the former IAS along with Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Sarat Pattanayak and some other youth leaders will reach New Delhi for the purpose. He is expected to be inducted into Congress in the presence of Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge.

Bijay Patnaik is a 1976 batch Odisha cadre IAS officer. He retired from the post of Chief Secretary of Odisha in 2013. In 2015, he joined the Anil Agarwal Foundation as the President of the Vedanta University Project. He left the post after two years alleging that Anil Agarwal Foundation was not interested in establishing the Vedanta University.