Bhubaneswar: In a major blow to the Biju Janata Dal ( BJD ) in Bhadrak district, three members of senior party leader Prafulla Samal’s family, including his two sons, today joined the ruling BJP in Odisha.

Samal’s sons—Prayaskanti and Pranitkanti—and his sister Urmila Nayak joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at its state headquarters here.

BJP Odisha unit president Manmohan Samal and other senior leaders of the party were present on the occasion.

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Prayaskanti, a former chairperson of Bhadrak municipality and a state secretary of BJD, had resigned from the Naveen Patnaik-led party in May this year.

Similarly, Urmila Nayak, the chairperson of Bhadrak Sadar block (Panchayat Samiti), along with the chairpersons of t

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