Former IAS officer V K Pandian with Naveen Patnaik (ANI file photo) BHUBANESWAR: After a brief lull, former chief minister Naveen Patnaik once again came in support of his trusted aide, V K Pandian, on Monday. He dismissed a media report against the former bureaucrat as unfounded and false.The report had claimed that Pandian had…
BHUBANESWAR: Amid murmurs about V K Pandian’s role in BJD’s electoral debacle and his absence in public since the June 4 results, the party on Thursday clarified that he was in New Delhi on instructions of outgoing CM Naveen Patnaik.“There are some misleading media reports on his (Pandian’s) Delhi tour,” BJD Rajya Sabha member Sasmit…
BHUBANESWAR: The Patnaiks have been the most dominant force in Odisha’s political and economic landscape. Just three individuals from two Patnaik families – Janaki Ballav (JB), Biju and the latter’s son Naveen – have governed the state as chief ministers for 45 years of the 77 since Independence. In the last 32 years, however, Odisha…
