Overview
- Nabin, who chaired the Odisha BJP core committee Monday, set plans for next year’s rural polls and raised possible cabinet and board appointments, according to party sources.
- He opened a Pandit Deendayal training camp at the AIPH campus in Jatni to build cadre skills and reinforce ideological grounding.
- He met ministers, MLAs and party office-bearers and told them to stay in villages and ensure welfare schemes reach homes ahead of local elections.
- The schedule included prayers at Puri’s Jagannath Temple and Mahaprasad with MP Sambit Patra, adding a note of cultural outreach to the organisational tour.
- Party aides highlighted modest logistics, saying he flew on a commercial flight due to fuel constraints and an austerity push, as the BJP works to deepen its reach in rural Odisha before the 2027 panchayat vote.