Naveen Patnaik (born 16 October 1946) is an Indian politician serving as the current and 14thChief Minister of Odisha. He is also the president of the Biju Janata Dal, a writer and has authored three books.[1] He is the longest-serving chief minister of Odisha and as of 2022, one of the longest-serving chief ministers of any Indian state, holding the post for over two decades, and only the third Indian chief Minister after Pawan Chamling and Jyoti Basu to win five consecutive terms as Chief Minister of an Indian state.[2][3]
Patnaik is a writer and had for the 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 five consecutive terms. Like his father, he has managed to control the bureaucracy and transformed it into a machine for the development of the state.[10] His spartan personal lifestyle and detachment from material possessions has been liked by the people of the state.[11] He is also one of the founding members of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage.[12] His elder sister is the writer Gita Mehta.[13]
Naveen at the Opening Ceremony Hockey World Cup 2018
After the death of his father Biju Patnaik, leader of the Janata Dal,[9] he was elected as a member to the 11th Lok Sabha in the by-election from Aska Parliamentary Constituency in Odisha, India.[9] 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. In 1997, the Janata Dal split and Naveen Patnaik founded the Biju Janata Dal which in alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance performed well and Naveen Patnaik was selected the Union Minister for Mines in the cabinet of A. B. Vajpayee.
In the 2000 Assembly election, 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.
Elections 2004
BJP led NDA lost the general elections in 2004, however, the coalition led by Naveen Patnaik emerged victorious in the state legislative elections and he continued as the Chief Minister. During this tenure, the friction between the ruling partners was getting more and more apparent, especially after the killing of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati[19] in the Kandhamal district of Odisha in 2007–2008 and also the 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.[20] He did it after severely criticizing 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.[21]
Patnaik spent most of his early days away from Odisha, so he has problems with writing and speaking fluently in Odia language. He is the only chief minister of India who does not speak fluently the regional language of his state and because of this, he has been facing severe criticism from his opponents. Presently, Patnaik has an adequate working knowledge of Odia and he possesses great mastery over Hindi, French, Punjabi, and English. At rallies, he delivers Odia speeches written in Roman alphabet.[23]
Accolades
Naveen Patnaik receiving Outlook Speakout award for best administrator from former President of India Pranab Mukherjee in the presence of Arun Jaitley
The United Nations in 2013, felicitated Naveen by presenting a citation for his government’s handling of Cyclone Phailin which hit Odisha in October 2013. The body also announced that the state’s efforts would be highlighted as a model for disaster management programs globally. Naveen was also invited by the international body to attend the 2015 Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR), which was held in Sendai, Japan from 14 to 18 March 2015.[24]
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^"Naveen Patnaik wins record fifth term in Odisha as BJP makes impressive gains". Debabrata Mohanty. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
^"Naveen Patnaik Set to Make History as Odisha Hands Him Power for a Record Fifth Straight Term". News18. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
^"Naveen Patnaik: From Reluctant Political Heir to Odisha's Longest Serving Chief Minister". NDTV.com. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
^Bhatt, Sheela (11 March 2009). "Naveen Patnaik's master stroke in Orissa". Rediff. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
^Reshmi R Dasgupta, TNN 10 May 2004, 03.13 am IST (10 May 2004). "Naveen Patnaik sets stage for GeNext Doscos". The Economic Times. Retrieved 21 November 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Bhandare, Namita (16 June 1997). "Naveen Patnaik juggles his socialite pursuits with his party's socialist goals". India Today. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
^ abc"Profile-Chief Minister of Orissa". Orissa. Gov.in. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
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^Shankar, Kalyani (4 January 2018). "From a soft-spoken socialite to a ruthless, authoritarian leader: Naveen Patnaik's two decades in Odisha". ThePrint. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^"INTACH Founding Members". INTACH. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
^Bisoyi, Sujit Kumar (26 January 2019). "Gita Mehta: Naveen Patnaik's sister and author Gita Mehta declines Padma Shri award | Bhubaneswar News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
^"Local factors led to Kandhamal violence". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^"Kandhamal led to split with BJP: Patnaik". India Today. 16 May 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
^Jha, Nikhil (16 April 2019). "Rise and rise of BJD leader Naveen Patnaik: Has the Odisha chief minister hit a plateau?". Times Now. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
^. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
^. Archived from the original on 4 April 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
^"UN citation to Naveen for Phailin evacuation". Business Standard. 20 December 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
^"Women reservation: UN compliment for Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik". The Economic Times. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
^Patnaik, Naveen (1 January 1985). Second Paradise: Indian Courtly Life 1590–1947. Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. ISBN9780385199926.
^Patnaik, Naveen (1 January 1990). A Desert Kingdom: The Rajputs of Bikaner. Vendome Press. ISBN9780865651227.
^Patnaik, Naveen (1 January 1993). The Garden of Life: An Introduction to the Healing Plants of India. Doubleday. ISBN9780385424691.
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Naveen Patnaik born 16 October 1946 is an Indian politician serving as the current and 14th Chief Minister of Odisha He is also the president of the Biju Janata Dal a writer and has authored three books 1 He is the longest serving chief minister of Odisha and as of 2022 one of the longest serving chief ministers of any Indian state holding the post for over two decades and only the third Indian chief Minister after Pawan Chamling and Jyoti Basu to win five consecutive terms as Chief Minister of an Indian state 2 3 Naveen PatnaikOfficial Portrait 201914th Chief Minister of OdishaIncumbentAssumed office 5 March 2000GovernorM M Rajendran Rameshwar Thakur Murlidhar Chandrakant BhandareS C Jamir Satya Pal MalikGaneshi LalPreceded byHemananda BiswalUnion Minister of Steel and Mines Government of IndiaIn office 19 March 1998 4 March 2000Prime MinisterAtal Bihari VajpayeePreceded byBirendra Prasad BaishyaSucceeded bySunder Lal PatwaConstituencyAskaMember of Parliament Lok SabhaIn office 12 April 1997 4 March 2000Preceded byBiju PatnaikSucceeded byKumudini PatnaikConstituencyAskaMember of Odisha Legislative AssemblyIncumbentAssumed office 5 March 2000Preceded byUdayanath NayakConstituencyHinjiliPresident of Biju Janata DalIncumbentAssumed office 26 December 1997Preceded byposition establishedPersonal detailsBorn 1946 10 16 16 October 1946 age 76 Cuttack Orissa British India present day Odisha India Political partyBiju Janata Dal 1997 present Other politicalaffiliationsJanata Dal until 1997 ParentBiju Patnaik father RelativesGita Mehta sister Sonny Mehta brother in law Residence s Naveen Nivas Aerodrome Road Bhubaneswar Odisha IndiaAlma materSt Stephen s College Delhi BA ProfessionPolitician writerWebsitenaveenpatnaik wbr in Contents 1 Biography 2 Political career 2 1 Electoral history 2 2 Elections 2000 2 3 Elections 2004 2 4 Elections 2009 2 5 Elections 2014 2 6 Elections 2019 3 Language 4 Accolades 5 Recognitions 6 Writings 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksBiography EditPatnaik was born on 16 October 1946 in Cuttack to Biju Patnaik former Chief Minister of Odisha and his wife Gyan Devi 4 5 He was educated at the Welham Boys School in Dehradun and later The Doon School 6 At Doon he was a classmate of Sanjay Gandhi and three years junior to Rajiv Gandhi who later became prime minister 7 After school he went to the St Stephen s College 8 of Delhi University and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree 9 Patnaik is a writer and had for the 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 five consecutive terms Like his father he has managed to control the bureaucracy and transformed it into a machine for the development of the state 10 His spartan personal lifestyle and detachment from material possessions has been liked by the people of the state 11 He is also one of the founding members of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage 12 His elder sister is the writer Gita Mehta 13 Political career Edit CM Naveen Patnaik meeting the 14th Dalai Lama Naveen at the Opening Ceremony Hockey World Cup 2018 After the death of his father Biju Patnaik leader of the Janata Dal 9 he was elected as a member to the 11th Lok Sabha in the by election from Aska Parliamentary Constituency in Odisha India 9 He was a member of the Consultative Committee of Ministry of Steel amp Mines Member of Standing Committee on Commerce and Member Library Committee of Parliament In 1997 the Janata Dal split and Naveen Patnaik founded the Biju Janata Dal which in alliance with the BJP led National Democratic Alliance performed well and Naveen Patnaik was selected the Union Minister for Mines in the cabinet of A B Vajpayee Electoral history Edit Year Office Constituency Party Votes for Naveen Opponent Party Votes Ref2000 Member of the Legislative Assembly Hinjili Biju Janata Dal 56 243 65 35 Udayanath Nayak Indian National Congress 29 826 34 65 14 2004 62 968 72 71 Udayanath Nayak 20 326 23 47 15 2009 72 942 76 04 Raghabo Parida 11 669 12 17 16 2014 89 267 73 14 Sibaram Patra 12 681 10 39 17 2019 94 065 66 32 Pitambar Acharya Bharatiya Janata Party 33 905 23 91 18 2019 Bijepur 1 10 604 59 78 Sanat Kumar Gartia 53 482 28 91 18 Elections 2000 Edit In the 2000 Assembly election 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 Elections 2004 Edit BJP led NDA lost the general elections in 2004 however the coalition led by Naveen Patnaik emerged victorious in the state legislative elections and he continued as the Chief Minister During this tenure the friction between the ruling partners was getting more and more apparent especially after the killing of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati 19 in the Kandhamal district of Odisha in 2007 2008 and also the active participation of Bajrang Dal in the riots that hit Kandhamal region Elections 2009 Edit 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 20 He did it after severely criticizing 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 21 Elections 2014 Edit Patnaik won a huge victory in both the 2014 Indian general elections and the Legislative Assembly of Odisha elections in 2014 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 22 Elections 2019 Edit With a strong BJP wave across the country the Biju Janata Dal under the leadership of Naveen Patnaik won as many as 112 seats out of 146 polls for 1 was deferred in the Legislative Assembly of Odisha and 12 out of 21 Lok Sabha seats in 2019 Indian general elections Language EditPatnaik spent most of his early days away from Odisha so he has problems with writing and speaking fluently in Odia language He is the only chief minister of India who does not speak fluently the regional language of his state and because of this he has been facing severe criticism from his opponents Presently Patnaik has an adequate working knowledge of Odia and he possesses great mastery over Hindi French Punjabi and English At rallies he delivers Odia speeches written in Roman alphabet 23 Accolades Edit Naveen Patnaik receiving Outlook Speakout award for best administrator from former President of India Pranab Mukherjee in the presence of Arun Jaitley Award Year Conferrer Event LocationCapital Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 N V Ramana New Delhi IndiaHero to Animals Award 2020 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Odisha IndiaCSI E Ratna Award 2020 Computer Society of India 53rd CSI Annual ConventionFIH President s Award 2018 International Hockey Federation 46th FIH CongressIdeal Chief Minister 2018 Pratibha Patil 8th Indian Students ParliamentBest Administrator in India 2017 Pranab Mukherjee Outlook India Speak Out Awards 2017United Nations Award 2013 United Nations Odisha State SecretariatRecognitions EditThe United Nations in 2013 felicitated Naveen by presenting a citation for his government s handling of Cyclone Phailin which hit Odisha in October 2013 The body also announced that the state s efforts would be highlighted as a model for disaster management programs globally Naveen was also invited by the international body to attend the 2015 Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction WCDRR which was held in Sendai Japan from 14 to 18 March 2015 24 The United Nations in 2019 complimented Naveen for his government s proposal of reserving 33 of seats for women in the National Parliament as well as in the state s Legislative Assembly 25 Writings EditA 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 See also EditList of chief ministers of Odisha List of current Indian chief ministers List of longest serving Indian chief ministers List of prime ministers of India List of presidents of IndiaReferences Edit From greenhorn to history scripting politician The Hindu 18 May 2009 Retrieved 4 January 2020 via www thehindu com Naveen Patnaik wins record fifth term in Odisha as BJP makes impressive gains Debabrata Mohanty 23 May 2019 Retrieved 29 May 2019 Naveen Patnaik Set to Make History as Odisha Hands Him Power for a Record Fifth Straight Term News18 23 May 2019 Retrieved 29 May 2019 Naveen Patnaik From Reluctant Political Heir to Odisha s Longest Serving Chief Minister NDTV com Retrieved 7 January 2022 Bhatt Sheela 11 March 2009 Naveen Patnaik s master stroke in Orissa Rediff Retrieved 25 December 2010 Reshmi R Dasgupta TNN 10 May 2004 03 13 am IST 10 May 2004 Naveen Patnaik sets stage for GeNext Doscos The Economic Times Retrieved 21 November 2012 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Bhandare Namita 16 June 1997 Naveen Patnaik juggles his socialite pursuits with his party s socialist goals India Today Retrieved 15 March 2022 Shri Naveen Patnaik OdishaGovt a b c Profile Chief Minister of Orissa Orissa Gov in Retrieved 27 May 2012 For Naveen politics is a way to complete father s agenda Archived 20 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine Indianexpress com 10 May 1997 Retrieved 25 December 2010 Shankar Kalyani 4 January 2018 From a soft spoken socialite to a ruthless authoritarian leader Naveen Patnaik s two decades in Odisha ThePrint Retrieved 31 August 2020 INTACH Founding Members INTACH Retrieved 11 August 2020 Bisoyi Sujit Kumar 26 January 2019 Gita Mehta Naveen Patnaik s sister and author Gita Mehta declines Padma Shri award Bhubaneswar News Times of India The Times of India Retrieved 26 March 2022 Orissa 2000 Election Commission of India Retrieved 3 May 2021 Orissa 2004 Election Commission of India Retrieved 3 May 2021 Orissa 2009 Election Commission of India Retrieved 3 May 2021 Odisha 2014 Election Commission of India Retrieved 3 May 2021 a b Odisha 2019 Election Commission of India Retrieved 3 May 2021 Local factors led to Kandhamal violence www rediff com Retrieved 4 January 2020 Kandhamal led to split with BJP Patnaik India Today 16 May 2009 Retrieved 15 March 2022 Jha Nikhil 16 April 2019 Rise and rise of BJD leader Naveen Patnaik Has the Odisha chief minister hit a plateau Times Now Retrieved 15 March 2022 Partywise Result Archived from the original on 17 May 2014 Retrieved 22 May 2014 Naveen Patnaik fails language test Archived from the original on 4 April 2014 Retrieved 17 June 2014 UN citation to Naveen for Phailin evacuation Business Standard 20 December 2013 Retrieved 5 June 2020 Women reservation UN compliment for Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik The Economic Times 25 February 2019 Retrieved 26 February 2019 Patnaik Naveen 1 January 1985 Second Paradise Indian Courtly Life 1590 1947 Doubleday Religious Publishing Group ISBN 9780385199926 Patnaik Naveen 1 January 1990 A Desert Kingdom The Rajputs of Bikaner Vendome Press ISBN 9780865651227 Patnaik Naveen 1 January 1993 The Garden of Life An Introduction to the Healing Plants of India Doubleday ISBN 9780385424691 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Naveen Patnaik Official website 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 Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India websitePolitical officesPreceded byHemananda Biswal Chief Minister of Odisha5 March 2000 present IncumbentState Legislative AssemblyPreceded byUdayanath Nayak BJD Member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly from Hinjili Vidhan Sabha constituency 2019 IncumbentPreceded byRita Sahu BJD Member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly from Bijepur Vidhan Sabha constituency 2019 2019 vacated Succeeded byRita Sahu BJD Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Naveen Patnaik amp oldid 1124320161, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
