When he entered politics after the death of his father Biju Patnaik, no one thought Naveen Patnaik, the suave, urbane and anglicised figure who was more at home in the salons of Manhattan than the ...
The BJD was defeated and the 24-year-long reign of Naveen Patnaik as chief minister of ... temple in Puri had been unveiled and was thought as a powerful counter to the BJP’s Hindutva ...