India, Jan. 27 -- The Odisha government on Monday appointed former director general of police (DGP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Prakash Mishra as advisor to chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi.

In a notification issued on Monday, the General Administration and Public Grievance department said, "Prakash Mishra, retired IPS officer, has been appointed as the advisor to the Chief Minister."

Mishra has also been accorded the rank of a cabinet minister, it added.

A 1977-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Mishra held the post of the DGP from 2012 to 2014. Before he retired from service, he had served as the director general (DG) of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) from 2014 to 2016 and the National Disaster Response ...