After a massive defeat in the State Assembly and Parliamentary elections, the 24-year-old tenure of Naveen Patnaik concluded as he submitted his resignation to Odisha Governor Raghubar Das at the Raj Bhavan in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday.
Biju Janata Dal's President Naveen Patnaik reviewed the election defeat in Odisha and instructed party leaders to keep in touch with the people and work towards the betterment of the state.
As National Democratic Alliance (NDA)-led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to hold a meeting of its newly elected MPs at the central hall of the Parliament on Friday, Odisha BJP state president Manmohan Samal confirmed that 20 Lok Sabha MPs and 1 Rajya Sabha MP will attend the meet
Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], June 6 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Odisha election co-in-charge Lata Usendi expressed her gratefulness towards the public for making BJP victorious in both the Assembly and Lok Sabha Elections of 2024 in the state. She further iterated that Odisha'
After BJP won 20 Lok Sabha seats and the 78 Legislative Assembly seats in Odisha, state BJP President Manmohan Samal said that the people of Odisha have rejected the corrupt BJD government.
While speaking at a meeting with the newly-elected MLAs of his party, Patnaik said, "When I first became the CM, 70 per cent of the people of Odisha were living below the poverty line, which has now been reduced to 10 per cent. Our efforts in the agriculture and irrigation sectors and women'
He took a dig at former Odisha CM and said, "Naveen Patnaik has to take responsibility for the defeat of BJD because VK Pandian does not come out of the blue. It was his government, that ran under him, and therefore he should be held accountable."
Pointing out the electoral drubbings of the YSR Congress Party and the BJD, which, he said, were the B-teams of BJP, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday warned other regional parties against aligning with the BJP for they end up in the same fate.
As the Bharatiya Janata Party registered a landslide victory in Odisha in the Lok Sabha election and secured a majority in the State Assembly, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday that people in the state instilled their faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi.