Patnaik favourite to retain power in Orissa: survey

June 26th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa Chief Minister Navin Patnaik has said that he will discuss with Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram about the state's needs to check Maoists activities.

May 21st, 2009 BHUBANESHVAR - The Biju Janata Dal leader and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will take the oath of office at 11.30 a.m on Thursday marking his third inning as CM. "I have been invited to form the government by Governor M C Bhandare," said Patnaik, who called on the governor at the Raj Bhavan on Wednesday.

May 21st, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Biju Janata Dal chief Naveen Patnaik was Thursday sworn in as Orissa chief minister for the third consecutive term. Governor M.C.

May 21st, 2009 BHUBANESHWAR - Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Naveen Patnaik was sworn in as Chief Minister of Orissa on Thursday for the third consecutive term. State Governor M C Bhandare administered the oath of office and secrecy to Patnaik at Raj Bhavan.

May 20th, 2009 BHUBANESHWAR - The Biju Janata Dal leader and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will take the oath of office at 11.30 a.m on Thursday marking his third inning as CM. "I have been invited to form the government by Governor M C Bhandare," Patnaik, who called on the governor at the Raj Bhavan on Wednesday.

May 20th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief Naveen Patnaik is set to take oath Thursday as Orissa chief minister for the third term in a row. Governor M.C.

May 16th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Orissa on Saturday said it would explore "all possibilities" after the results. "We stand by what we had said earlier," BJD secretary general Damodar Rout said, adding that his party was hoping to form the government of its own in the state and would support a non-BJP and non-Congress government in the centre.

May 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Party is hoping for 'passive support' from Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. Biju Janata Dal (BJD) President Patnaik has assured the Congress that he will abstain in the confidence vote.ongress President Sonia Gandhi called Patnaik and reaffirmed her support.

May 8th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) head Naveen Patnaik will play a 'key role' in forming a 'non-Congress, secular government', Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat said after meeting him here Friday. 'Our assessment is that no party will get definite majority and secular parties like us will be able to muster enough support to form the government,' Karat told reporters after a 90-minute meeting with Patnaik.

April 23rd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was among the voters who exercised their franchise Thursday soon after polling began for the second and final phase of Lok Sabha and assembly elections, official said. 'Patnaik walked down from his house here, Naveen Nivas, to the polling booth about 100 metres away at about 7 a.m.,' police inspector P.K.

April 8th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Nationalist Congress Party alliance with the Left parties and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Orissa is 'only Orissa-specific', NCP chief Sharad Pawar said here Wednesday. 'Our arrangement is only Orissa-specific,' Pawar told a press conference, addressed jointly with Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik.

March 28th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Former chief minister Biju Patnaik continues to dominate the election campaign in Orissa even 12 years after his death with two groups of politicians claiming to be true inheritors of his legacy. Like in the general elections of 2000 and 2004, party manifesto, posters and other campaign materials that the BJD has released in the recent few days have images of Biju Patnaik.

March 28th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday filed his nomination papers from the Hinjili assembly constituency in Orissa. Patnaik, elected from the constituency in 2000 and 2004, filed his papers at Chhatrapur town, some 160 km from here, in the presence of several BJD leaders.

March 20th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa state unit chief ofthe Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Bijoy Mohapatra Thursday announced his resignation, protesting his party's decision to support Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. 'Patnaik is a serial killer and he should be taught a lesson.

February 12th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa has been neglected in interim railway budget presented by Railways Minister Lalu Prasad in Parliament Friday, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said here. 'I am disappointed as Orissa has been neglected,' Patnaik told reporters here, adding that only one new express train was proposed to be introduced in the state in 2009-2010.