Bhubaneswar, March 6 -- Reinforcing the State unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former Chief Managing Director (CMD) of NALCO, Tapan Chand joined BJP on Wednesday.

Chand joined at the party office in Bhubaneswar in the presence of BJP's Odisha chief Manmohan Samal and other senior leaders.

Chand has been involved in politics since his student days. He served as the students' union president of Utkal University (Vani Vihar) too. He later joined the corporate sector with Vizag Steel Plant and NALCO.

Addressing the BJP members after joining the party, Chand said, "India is now considered as a powerful nation. And BJP is world's largest political party. The BJP is the largest platform for development and prosperity of India. That is wh...