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Odisha New CM Mohan Charan Majhi:  After a 24-year-long BJD's Naveen Patnaik rule, Odisha got its new Chief Minister as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday elected Keonjhar MLA Mohan Ram Majhi to head the eastern state. Majhi's appointment came after Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Bhupender Yadav, earlier today, held a key meeting with Odisha BJP MLAs in Bhubaneswar. Along with Majhi, the party has also appointed two Deputy Chief Ministers in the state - Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo and Pravati Parida.

In the recently concluded assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party pulled a shocker as it ousted the Biju Janata Dal government from power after a long rule of over two decades. Mohan Charan Majhi also won his seat, Keonjhar, defeating BJD's Mina Majhi by a margin of 11,577 votes.

Who is Mohan Charan Majhi?

Majhi started his political journey as a village sarpanch in 1997 and won his first assembly election in the year 2000. A down-to-earth tribal leader of Odisha, Majhi won the assembly elections from the Keonjhar seat four times. He served as an MLA two times between 2000 and 2009. Even though the BJD clinched the Keonjhar seat, Mohan Charan Majhi conquered the bastion again in 2019.

With his deep-rooted links to BJP's ideological mentor, the RSS, Majhi's political journey has been clean and non-controversial. He is well-known for his organisational skills and has worked extensively in BJP's Odisha unit. A loyal BJP man, Majhi was elected as the Chief Whip of the saffron camp in the state assembly.

Mohan Charan Majhi: Family, Net Worth, Education

Mohan Majhi graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from CS College Champua in 1993. Later, he also completed his LLB in 2011. According to a report by Aaj Tak, he has a total net worth of rupees 1.97 crores, and a total liability of around 95 lakh.

Mohan Majhi and Odisha's Dal Controversy

In 2023, Majhi was accused of throwing uncooked dal (pulses) at the Odisha Assembly speaker's podium, an act for which he was suspended along with BJP leader Mukesh Mahaling.

Majhi denied the allegations, explaining that he had brought the pulses as a mark of protest against the BJD members' use of derogatory words to describe the leader of the opposition, but he never threw them at the podium.