New Delhi: Ex Orissa centimeters Naveen Patnaikconfidant VK Pandian Announced retirement on Sunday active politics.
A few days later, Pandian made an announcement They are Janata Dal (bjp) faces huge setback in Odisha Assembly and Lok Sabha election.
Patnaik also issued a statement claiming that Pandian was not his “successor” and it would be up to the people of the state to decide on this.
Pandian, a 2000-batch IAS officer, has been Patnaik’s personal secretary for more than two decades. In 2023, he joined the BJD after taking voluntary retirement from the bureaucracy.
bjp (BJP) ended the 24-year uninterrupted rule of the BJD centimeters Naveen Patnaik, 77 years old.
The BJP, while opposing Naveen, with whom it shared power as junior alliance partner in Odisha from 2000 to 2009, crafted an elaborate campaign strategy for a twin-engine government that incorporated Odia asmita (pride), Emotional issues such as people’s wishes.
Three independents completed the tally in the 147-seat Assembly with 78 seats, 51 seats for the RSS, 14 seats for the Congress and 1 seat for the CPM. Naveen himself lost one of the two seats – Kantabanji – but managed to win Hinjili, making it his sixth consecutive victory.
The Bharatiya Janata Party achieved a historic victory in the Odisha Lok Sabha polls, bagging an unprecedented 20 out of 21 seats, a significant improvement over the previous eight seats in 2019.
The BJD failed to win a single seat, losing all its 21 candidates, compared with 12 seats in 2019. seats.
The result has plunged the BJD, which has dominated Odisha’s political landscape for nearly 25 years under Naveen’s leadership, into an existential crisis. Since joining politics after the death of his father Biju Patnaik in 1997, Naveen has been in hot demand, first as a Union minister in 1998-1999 and then as the chief minister.
(With input from Deba Brata)
A few days later, Pandian made an announcement They are Janata Dal (bjp) faces huge setback in Odisha Assembly and Lok Sabha election.
Patnaik also issued a statement claiming that Pandian was not his “successor” and it would be up to the people of the state to decide on this.
Pandian, a 2000-batch IAS officer, has been Patnaik’s personal secretary for more than two decades. In 2023, he joined the BJD after taking voluntary retirement from the bureaucracy.
bjp (BJP) ended the 24-year uninterrupted rule of the BJD centimeters Naveen Patnaik, 77 years old.
The BJP, while opposing Naveen, with whom it shared power as junior alliance partner in Odisha from 2000 to 2009, crafted an elaborate campaign strategy for a twin-engine government that incorporated Odia asmita (pride), Emotional issues such as people’s wishes.
Three independents completed the tally in the 147-seat Assembly with 78 seats, 51 seats for the RSS, 14 seats for the Congress and 1 seat for the CPM. Naveen himself lost one of the two seats – Kantabanji – but managed to win Hinjili, making it his sixth consecutive victory.
The Bharatiya Janata Party achieved a historic victory in the Odisha Lok Sabha polls, bagging an unprecedented 20 out of 21 seats, a significant improvement over the previous eight seats in 2019.
The BJD failed to win a single seat, losing all its 21 candidates, compared with 12 seats in 2019. seats.
The result has plunged the BJD, which has dominated Odisha’s political landscape for nearly 25 years under Naveen’s leadership, into an existential crisis. Since joining politics after the death of his father Biju Patnaik in 1997, Naveen has been in hot demand, first as a Union minister in 1998-1999 and then as the chief minister.
(With input from Deba Brata)
