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Its foundation was established in Orissa with
the visit of Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay, the National President of the party
to this state in 1964. On this occasion in a public meeting at Jharsuguda, he
assigned organizational function to Honorable Kushabhau Thakre and
Honourable Sridhar Acharya . Thus Thakreji and Acharyaji took the charge of
observer and Organisation Secretary respectively for the state of Orissa. Then
Thakreji with other leaders auspiciously started organisational work from
western orissa. Thus during 1971 Jana Sangha had already started its unit work
at Sambalpur, Balasore, Jharsuguda and Cuttack and in the same year it took
part in the election in ‘Deepa' ( Lamp) Symbol. |