Bhupinder Singh is Congress leader in Orissa assembly

Bhubaneswar: Former Orissa minister Bhupinder Singh was Sunday unanimously elected leader of Congress party in the state assembly, party sources said.

He was elected at a meeting of the newly elected Congress legislators in the presence of central cabinet minister and Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad and state Congress president K.P. Singh Deo.

Singh, a cabinet minister in the former J.B. Patnaik government, was elected to the assembly for the fourth time from the impoverished Kalahandi district.

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The legislators also elected Prasad Harichandan as the chief whip of the Congress legislature party.

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