Kishore Mohanty appointed as the Chairperson of Western Odisha Development Council [Odisha Diary]

Senior BJD leader and former speaker of the state assembly Kishore Mohanty appointed as chairperson of Western Odisha Development Council (WODC).  

It should be noted that on Monday Padmini Shekhar Deo resigned from the chairperson of Western Odisha Development Council (WODC). Appointed in October 2011 as the WODC chief Deo had two more years of her term left.  Deo stated she quit her post on advice of BJD president and chief minister Naveen Patnaik.   

The 65-year-old Deo is the Queen of the Sundergarh royal family and is also the former chairperson of the Mahila Vikas Samavaya Nigam (State Women Development Cooperative Corporation). Deo joined the Janata Dal under the leadership of late Biju Patnaik and became the chairperson of the Sundergarh NAC in 1992. Later, she was given a Janata Dal ticket to contest Assembly elections in 1995, which she lost.