Amid the suspense over the name of the next chief minister of Odisha, all preparations are for the swearing-in ceremony of the BJP government on Monday. The ceremony will be held at the Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar after the meeting of the BJP’s legislature party scheduled on the same day morning. Meanwhile, action has shifted to Delhi where the party’s parliamentary board is likely to take a final call on it. The BJP’s 78-member legislature party meeting has been convened to formally elect the leader in presence of party central observers. Several names of Chief Minister probables are doing the rounds.

The swearing-in ceremony of the first-ever BJP government in Odisha will be held on Monday in Bhubaneswar’s Janata Maidan. With the suspense over the name of the first BJP chief minister of Odisha continuing, state unit party president Manmohan Samal, who returned from Delhi on Saturday evening, said that the BJP parliamentary board, the highest decision-making body, will take a final call on this issue.

The BJP’s legislature party is scheduled to meet on Monday in presence of central observers where the name of the new chief minister will be decided with consensus. Meanwhile, all the newly elected 20 BJP MPs from Odisha have been consulted by the top leadership of the party. The names which are doing rounds include six-time MP and former Union Minister Jual Oram, former Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and senior leader from western Odisha, Suresh Pujari. Among all the names, only Pujari is an MLA, who won from Barajarajnagar assembly constituency. The swearing-in ceremony is likely to be attended by Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi, BJP president JP Nadda, senior BJP leader Amit Shah along with chief ministers of several National Democratic Alliance-ruled states. The BJP had a resounding victory in the Odisha Assembly elections by winning 78 of the 147 seats, leaving 51 for BJD, 14 for Congress and 4 for others.