BJP leader and Bhubanswar MP Aparajita Sarangi on Saturday inaugurated the Biju Hall at the Indian embassy in Jakarta and unveiled a commemorative plaque of former Odisha chief minister Biju Patnaik.

Sarangi was in Indonesia as a member of the all-party delegation for the Operation Sindoor outreach programme. The delegation met members of the Golkar and Nasdem parties of Indonesia and informed them about the Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people were killed.

In a post on X, the Indian embassy in Indonesia said: “During the visit of the multi-party parliamentary delegation to Indonesia, Aparajita Sarangi, MP from Odisha, interacted with the members of the Odiya samaj. She also inaugurated the ‘Biju Hall’ of the embassy and unveiled a commemorative plaque of late Odiya leader Biju Patnaik, Indian freedom fighter & aviator who played a key role during Indonesia’s independence struggle for which he received the highest civilian award of ‘Bintang Jasa Utama’ and honorary citizenship of Indonesia ‘Bumi Putra’.”

However, political observers feel the decision of the Indian embassy to have a Biju Hall built must have been backed by the BJP government at the Centre.