Whether Naveen Patnaik will be able to gallop on the slippery road of Odisha this time?
Reportedly after 160 days, odisha cm naveen patnaik will reach the top in the list of leaders who have been the longest serving chief minister of India. Till now this record is recorded in the name of sikkim chief minister Pawan Kumar Chamling. However, to break this record, Patnaik will have to win the 2024 elections. In odisha, elections are proposed for 147 assembly seats and 21 lok sabha seats. This election is considered important for naveen patnaik, who has been in power in odisha for 24 years, because - bjp and congress have laid a strong siege at the local level. The new equation created in many districts has troubled BJD. After the arrival of IAS officer VK Pandian, the fight for succession in the internal politics of BJD has intensified.
Meanwhile in such a situation, the biggest question is whether Patnaik will be able to gallop on the slippery road of odisha this time? Gujral brought him into politics, Vajpayee gave him life. This incident is of 1997. Biju Patnaik died in april 1997 at the age of 81. At the time of Biju's death, inder kumar Gujral was in power at the Centre. prime minister Gujral asked naveen to enter politics. naveen accepted Gujral's offer and staked claim from Aska lok sabha seat. However, naveen soon realized that there was nothing much for him in central politics. In december 1997, he formed his own party, Biju Janata Dal, in the name of his father, whose objective was to make odisha a leader. In an interview given to india Today magazine, naveen patnaik says - I got my father's inheritance, but not the privileges.
In the 1998 lok sabha elections, naveen Patnaik's party contested the elections in alliance with BJP. nda won 16 out of 21 seats. Patnaik was made the Union Mines minister in the Vajpayee government. In the year 2000, Patnaik's fortunes took a U-turn. BJD alliance won 106 seats in the assembly elections. BJD alone got 68 seats. Patnaik became the leader of the party legislature party and assumed the post of chief minister for the first time.