Naveen Patnaik

The Honourable Naveen Patnaik
ନବୀନ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ
14th Chief Minister of Odisha
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 March 2000
Governor	M. M. Rajendran Rameshwar Thakur Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare S. C. Jamir
Preceded by	Hemananda Biswal
Constituency	Hinjili[1]
Cabinet Minister Ministry of Mines
In office 19 March 1998 – 8 March 2000
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Member of the Indian Parliament for Aska
In office 1997 – 8 March 2000
Preceded by	Biju Patnaik
Succeeded by	Kumudini Patnaik
Personal details
Born	(1946-10-16) 16 October 1946 Cuttack, Orissa, British India
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Biju Janata Dal
Other political affiliations	Janata Dal (1996–98)
Residence	Naveen Nivas, Bhubaneswar
Alma mater	Kirori Mal College
Profession	Writer, Politician
Religion	Hinduism
Website	Official BJD page Chief Minister of Odisha

Naveen Patnaik (born 16 October 1946) is 14th and current Chief Minister of Odisha. The supremo of the Biju Janata Dal, is also a writer and has published four books.^[2]

Biography

Patnaik was born on 16 October 1946 in Cuttack in a Karan family^[3] from Biju Patnaik, former Chief Minister of Odisha, and his brother Himanshu Patnaik.^[4] Patnaik was educated at the prestigious Welham Boys' School in Dehradun, and later the The Doon School.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]} After that he attended Kirori Mal College,^[11] Delhi University, and he qualified for Bachelor of Arts degree.^[12] Naveen Patnaik is a writer and had for most part of his youth been away from both politics and Odisha, but after his father Biju Patnaik's demise, he entered politics in 1997 and a year later founded the Biju Janata Dal, named after Biju Patnaik, which won the state election with the BJP as its alliance and formed the government in which Patnaik became Chief Minister. His mild mannerism, "stand against corruption" and "pro-poor policies" have resulted in the development of a huge support base in Odisha, which has voted him to power in the last four consecutive terms. Like his father, he has managed to control the bureaucracy and transformed it into a machine for the development of the state.^[13] He is a devotee of Lord Jagannath, Puri.

Elections 2000

After the death of his father Biju Patnaik, leader of the Janata Dal,^[12] he was elected as a member to the 11th Lok Sabha in the by-election from Aska Parliamentary Constituency in Odisha, India.^[12] He was a member of the Consultative Committee of Ministry of Steel & Mines, Member of Standing Committee on Commerce, and Member Library Committee of Parliament. A year later the Janta Dal split and Patnaik founded the Biju Janta Dal which in alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) performed well and Patnaik was selected the Union Minister for Mines in the cabinet of A.B.Vajpayee. However, as the BJD won the majority of seats in alliance with the BJP in the Odisha Assembly elections, Patnaik resigned from the Union cabinet and was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Odisha in 2000.

Elections 2004

All this led to the rise in the popularity of A. B. Vajpayee and the BJP, the NDA was again victorious in 2004 and Patnaik continued as the Chief Minister, but the friction between the ruling partners was getting more and more apparent, especially after the killing of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati^[14] in the Kandhamal district of Odisha in 2007–2008 and also active participation of Bajrang Dal in the riots that hit Kandhamal region.

Elections 2009

In the run-up to the polls for the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly of Odisha elections in 2009, BJD walked out of the NDA after severing ties with the BJP and joined the nascent Third Front constituted mainly by the Left Front and few regional parties.^[15] He did it after severely criticising BJP's involvement in Kandhamal anti-Christian riots during 2007. The BJD won a resounding victory in both the Vidhan Sabha (State Assembly) as well as the Lok Sabha elections in 2009, winning 14 out of 21 Lok Sabha seats and 103 of the 147 assembly seats and was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Odisha on 21 May 2009 for the third consecutive term.^[16]

Elections 2014

Naveen Patnaik won a huge victory in both the 2014 Indian General Elections and the Legislative Assembly of Odisha elections in 2014. Naveen Patnaik's Biju Janata Dal secured 20 out of the 21 Lok Sabha Seats of Odisha and 117 of the 147 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Seats.Now he worked on make in odisha and digital odisha. As talent aquisition programme he acquired some technical student from different part of odisha [ sudrashan naik, bolangir, dhilan patel,bhubneswar, swati mishra,rourkela, basudev ghosh, brajrajngar, laulesh kumar, pce, abhijeet pattnaik, dhenkanla^[17]

Language

Naveen Patnaik spent most of his early days away from Odisha so he couldn't learn the Odia language. He is the only chief minister of India who does not speak the regional language of the state and because of this he has been facing severe criticism from his opponent. However he possesses great mastery over the Hindi Language, French and English language. At rallies, he delivers Odia speeches written in Roman alphabet.^[18]

Controversies

Some MP, MLAs of Patnaik's party BJD have been arrested and questioned by the CBI in 2014 because of involvement in illegal chit fund companies and Ponzi schemes.^[19][20][21] CBI is investigating over 30 companies in relation to these multi-crore financial scams, which have robbed lakhs of the state's poor of their lifetime savings. Questions were raised because of Patnaik's silence over this issue and his proximity to many such businesses, as he was photographed at the launch of a news channel by one such company.^[22]

Awards and recognitions

• Naveen Patnaik was felicitated by the United Nations (UN) for an effort to evacuate nearly a million people ahead of tropical storm, Cyclone Phailin, that made a landfall on coastal Odisha in October 2013.^[23]
• Naveen Patnaik was ranked the Most Popular Chief Minister of India by India Today-ORG-Marg Mood of the Nation Poll.^[24]
• Naveen Patnaik was ranked the Second Best Performing Chief Minister by NDTV Opinion Poll.^[25]

Bibliography

• A Second Paradise: Indian Courtly Life 1590–1947 – Published in India, England and US^[26]
• A Desert Kingdom: The People of Bikaner – Published in India, England and US^[27]
• The Garden of Life: An Introduction to the Healing Plants of India- Published in India, England and US^[28]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Naveen Patnaik.

• Notable personalities of Odisha, including Naveen Patnaik, in Orissadiary website
• Notable personalities of Odisha as per the Govt. of Odisha official web site
• Odisha's accidental politician, BBC

Members of the 13th Lok Sabha from Odisha
BJD (10)	Arjun Charan Sethi Bhartruhari Mahtab Braja Kishore Tripathy Jagannath Mallik Prabhat Kumar Samantraya Trilochan Kanungo Padmanava Behera Prasanna Kumar Patasani Naveen Patnaik Prasanna Acharya
BJP (9)	Anandicharan Sahu Ananta Nayak Bikram Keshari Deo Debendra Pradhan Jual Oram Mahamegha Bahan Aira Kharbela Swain Parsuram Majhi Salkhan Murmu Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
Congress (2)	Hema Gamang Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo
12th LS members 14th LS members