Mohan Charan Majhi

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A brief profile

Ashok Pradhan, June 12, 2024: The Times of India

From farmer to 4th-term MLA, now CM

Mohan Charan Majhi has worn many hats — farmer, teacher in an R S S-run school, sarpanch, adivasi rights advocate, and a crusader against the mining mafia. The four-time Keonjhar MLA, who shares his Santhal roots with President Droupadi Murmu, is seen as a strategic pick by BJP months ahead of assembly polls in predominantly tribal Jharkhand. He studied law and taught for a while before being elected as an MLA in 2000. As secretary of BJP’s Adivasi Morcha, Majhi worked his way up the party ranks to become its chief whip in 2019.

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Ashok Pradhan, June 12, 2024: The Times of India

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s CM designate Mohan Charan Majhi has worn many hats — farmer, teacher in an R S S-run school, sarpanch, Adivasi rights advocate, and a crusader against the mining mafia. Being named BJP’s first CM in its new eastern frontier marks the culmination of the 52-year old’s almost unheralded journey to political prominence.


The four-time Keonjhar MLA, who shares his Santhal roots with India’s first Adivasi Prez Droupadi Murmu, is seen as a strategic pick by BJP months ahead of the assembly elections in predominantly tribal Jharkhand. 
Growing up in Keonjhar Sadar, Majhi showed early promise as a student and someone keen to take up a cause for his community. He studied law and taught for a while at R S S-run Saraswati Shisu Vidya Mandir before plunging into politics as an elected sarpanch from 1997 to 2000, when he became MLA for the first time. 
As secretary of BJP’s Adivasi Morcha, Majhi quickly hit his straps and worked his way up the party ranks to become its chief whip in 2019. 
He previously had a stint as deputy chief whip when BJP was part of a coalition with BJD from 2005 to 2009.


On his return as Keonjhar MLA in 2019 after a decade since his last electoral victory in 2004, Majhi made headlines when he spoke in the assembly about being forced to spend several nights on a footpath due to delay in allotment of a govt quarter to him. Majhi told the then assembly speaker, S N Patro, that he couldn’t rent a house at short notice, and his mobile phone was stolen while he was asleep in the open.


In a quirk of circumstance, general administration department is house hunting for him. Since outgoing CM Naveen Patnaik lived in his private residence in Bhubaneswar for past 24 years, the need to have a designated chief ministerial bungalow was never felt.


Majhi’s only brush with controversy came in Septlast year when former speaker Pramila Mallik suspended him along with Dalit legislator Mukesh Mahaling for allegedly throwing a fistful of dal at her in protest against an alleged dal procurement scam for midday school meals. He had contested the allegation.


In 2022, Majhi told the assembly that the lives of some MLAs were under threat from the mining mafia.
 The previous year, he had escaped unhurt when motorbike-borne assailants hurled crude bombs at his vehicle in Keonjhar.