All the ministers in the Odisha cabinet resigned on Saturday, paving way for Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to reshuffle his cabinet.

The new ministers will take oath at 12 pm on Sunday, reported news agency ANI citing official sources.

This comes a day after the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha secured a double victory on Friday as it won all the three Rajya Sabha seats unopposed and the bypoll to the Brajrajnagar assembly seat in Jharsuguda district by a huge margin.The three party candidates who have been elected to the Rajya Sabha are Sulata Deo, Manas Ranjan Mangaraj and Sasmit Patra. Of these, Patra has been re-nominated to the Rajya Sabha, while Deo and Mangaraj are first-timers.

They were elected unopposed as neither the opposition BJP nor Congress fielded any candidate due to the lack of numbers in the Assembly.

Notably, the BJD has 113 legislators in the 147-member assembly while the opposition BJP and Congress have 22 and nine MLAs, respectively.

Also, on the day, BJD candidate Alaka Mohanty registered a landslide victory in the Brajrajnagar bypoll, by defeating her nearest opponent Congress veteran Kishore Patel by a margin of above 66,000 votes. The Brajrajnagar bypoll margin is the highest in all the by-polls held in Odisha since 2019.

BJP candidate Radharani Panda lost her deposit, according to the Election Commission.