Naveen Patnaik Record: A brand new achievement has been added to the title of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. Patnaik on Sunday (July 23) turned the second longest serving chief minister of a state in India with a tenure of 23 years and 139 days. He has left behind the document of former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu.
CM Patnaik is now second solely to Pawan Kumar Chamling of Sikkim, who holds the document for main the state for the longest interval of 24 years and 166 days between December 1994 and Could 2019. Whereas former CM Basu left the submit in 2000 after ruling the jap state constantly for 23 years. Whereas Chamling misplaced the meeting elections within the Himalayan state in Could 2019.
Chamling’s document can be destroyed
In 1997, when Naveen Patnaik entered politics after the loss of life of his father and former Chief Minister Biju Patnaik, his opponents and well-wishers dismissed him as a novice. If the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) returns to energy in Odisha in subsequent 12 months’s meeting elections, Patnaik shall be on track to grow to be the longest-serving chief minister within the nation.
After the loss of life of his father, he contested the by-election from the Aska Lok Sabha seat and received. Later, with the assistance of BJP, Naveen Patnaik broke away from Janata Dal and fashioned his personal social gathering Biju Janata Dal (BJD). Within the subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha elections, his social gathering solid an alliance with the BJP and Patnaik joined Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s authorities as Minister of Metal and Mines.
His alliance with BJP continued until 2009. Later selected a unique path. Naveen Patnaik is a pacesetter with a robust and common picture. His largest energy has been to face political challenges. Patnaik has made each effort to retain his voter base.
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