Kalikesh Singh Deo: He is handsome and well – spoken. He is from a royal decent and represents conventional politicians. He can look dandy even in a crisp white kutra- pyjama. Kalikesh was on the cover page of one of the editions of vogue magazine. He is the leader of BJD.
Kalikesh Deo attended the Doon School, Dehradun and graduated in Economics from St. Stephen's College. He hails from the royal family of Bolangir.
Kalikesh spent his initial career working in investment banking and with the energy giant, Enron and later switched to politics.
He was one of the speakers at the UN Peace Conference in Bangkok and UN HIV AIDS conference in Bali.