By Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, March 12, 2015 :

The Bharaitya Janata Party [BJP] on Thursday has picked up six senior leaders from the Odisha state BJP unit for the party’s national executive.

They are Union petroleum and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan, union tribal affairs minister Jual Oram, former union minister and Rourkela MLA Dilip Ray, senior party leaders Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, Bijoy Mohapatra and Suresh Pujari.

Besides, state unit president Kanak Vardhan Singhdeo and Basant Panda have been selected as special invitees in the National Executive of the BJP.

On Thursday, BJP national president Amit Shah announced 111-member national executive.