Bhubaneswar, May 7 (PTI) The Biju Janata Dal on Wednesday said it has appointed former bureaucrat Ajit Kumar Mishra as a political secretary to party president Naveen Patnaik.

Mishra will be the second political secretary to the president of the opposition party.

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Last year, business leader Santrupt Misra had joined as the political secretary to the BJD president.

Ajit Kumar Mishra, a promoted IAS officer and former Nabarangpur district collector, was in the race for a BJD ticket to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Kalahandi last year.

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Mishra's appointment came two days after Patnaik reconstituted a Political Affairs Committee (PAC) of the BJD and selected new state-level office-bearers and convenors of the party's frontal wings.

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