{"id":19108,"date":"2022-07-30T18:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=19108"},"modified":"2022-07-30T18:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T12:50:11","slug":"sasmit-patra-appointed-leader-of-bjd-in-rajya-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2022\/07\/30\/sasmit-patra-appointed-leader-of-bjd-in-rajya-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasmit Patra Appointed Leader of BJD in Rajya Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BJD President and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday appointed Rajya Sabha member Sasmit Patra as the party leader in the upper house of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>First-time MP Sulata Deo has been appointed as Chief Whip of the party in the house, BJD Organisational Secretary Pranab Prakash Das said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Patra and Deo were elected to the Rajya Sabha unopposed and took oath on July 18 and July 8, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The post of BJD leader in the RS was lying vacant following completion of tenure of Prasanna Acharya. At present, the BJD has nine members in the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJD President and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday appointed Rajya Sabha member Sasmit Patra as the party leader in the upper house of Parliament. First-time MP Sulata Deo has been appointed as Chief Whip of the party in the house, BJD Organisational Secretary Pranab Prakash Das said in a statement. Patra and Deo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","category-odisha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19110,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19108\/revisions\/19110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}