Naveen Patnaik – man of all seasons

Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Naveen Patnaik will flip 76 on Sunday, additionally marking an unprecedented 25 years of success in politics, 22 years of which have been because the Chief Minister of Odisha. He has solely grown stronger with every passing 12 months, creating an aura of invincibility round him. It has additionally created a situation the place there is no such thing as a different to him in State politics.

Naveen, in his political profession, has seen six Governors, three Prime Ministers and quite a few different gamers within the grand theatre of Indian politics. He has discovered allies, encountered adversity and coursed by means of difficult occasions solely to emerge as the person of all seasons, whose immaculate sense of political inventiveness mixed with consciousness of the citizens has turn out to be stuff of the legend. To high all of it, the 76-year-old’s model of political civility has solely made him darling of the courses in addition to the lots.

Naveen entered politics in 1997 by profitable from Aska Lok Sabha seat in a bypoll after the dying of his father Biju Patnaik, then a Janata Dal chief. In 1997, the Janata Dal break up and he based the Biju Janata Dal which in alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance carried out properly. He served because the Union Minister for Mines within the AB Vajpayee authorities. 

The BJD-BJP alliance swept to energy in 2000 with him because the Chief Minister. But in 2009, he broke the alliance with BJP and the BJD has gone solo since then. And the regional social gathering has solely grown larger in its political footprint ever since.

During the interval, when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was in energy on the Centre, Naveen coined the idea of equidistance between BJP and Congress which stays the ideological core of the BJD until now. It is Naveen’s steadfastness on sturdy regional politics which many different leaders are actually taking a cue from. Such is his deep understanding of the individuals’s pulse that younger Chief Ministers and nationwide leaders look as much as him.

It is his uncanny means to strike an ideal stability between good governance and good politics which the Opposition has discovered arduous to decode. That he has stood victorious towards the Modi wave – twice over – tells all of it. Despite his rising recognition and BJD’s rising numbers, Naveen has sided with NDA on issues of nationwide curiosity comparable to Article 370, CAA displaying a uncommon sense of political knowledge within the present occasions.

All this whereas, Naveen has remained deeply dedicated to improvement of the State by reaching out to the final mile by means of a bouquet of welfare programmes in agriculture, training and well being. At the identical time, with carefully-designed schemes like KALIA, Mission Shakti and temple improvement, he has remained miles forward of the Opposition. 

After pulling the State out of the morasses which the publish 1999 Super Cyclone had created, Naveen has turned to the brand new technology which is younger and aspirational. His politics too has undergone a change – a acutely aware shift to sports activities improvement which has made him a job mannequin within the nation as his promotion of hockey has introduced worldwide success for India. Focus on technology-driven governance, ability improvement and IT and ITES are different examples how he’s constantly forward of the curve.

He too faces challenges forward. The instant concern is the BJP’s progress. But understanding Naveen, he’ll counter BJP’s progress in addition to preserve the stability which he has executed so spectacularly properly to date.

BHUBANESWAR: Naveen Patnaik will flip 76 on Sunday, additionally marking an unprecedented 25 years of success in politics, 22 years of which have been because the Chief Minister of Odisha. He has solely grown stronger with every passing 12 months, creating an aura of invincibility round him. It has additionally created a situation the place there is no such thing as a different to him in State politics.

Naveen, in his political profession, has seen six Governors, three Prime Ministers and quite a few different gamers within the grand theatre of Indian politics. He has discovered allies, encountered adversity and coursed by means of difficult occasions solely to emerge as the person of all seasons, whose immaculate sense of political inventiveness mixed with consciousness of the citizens has turn out to be stuff of the legend. To high all of it, the 76-year-old’s model of political civility has solely made him darling of the courses in addition to the lots.

Naveen entered politics in 1997 by profitable from Aska Lok Sabha seat in a bypoll after the dying of his father Biju Patnaik, then a Janata Dal chief. In 1997, the Janata Dal break up and he based the Biju Janata Dal which in alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance carried out properly. He served because the Union Minister for Mines within the AB Vajpayee authorities. 

The BJD-BJP alliance swept to energy in 2000 with him because the Chief Minister. But in 2009, he broke the alliance with BJP and the BJD has gone solo since then. And the regional social gathering has solely grown larger in its political footprint ever since.

During the interval, when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was in energy on the Centre, Naveen coined the idea of equidistance between BJP and Congress which stays the ideological core of the BJD until now. It is Naveen’s steadfastness on sturdy regional politics which many different leaders are actually taking a cue from. Such is his deep understanding of the individuals’s pulse that younger Chief Ministers and nationwide leaders look as much as him.

It is his uncanny means to strike an ideal stability between good governance and good politics which the Opposition has discovered arduous to decode. That he has stood victorious towards the Modi wave – twice over – tells all of it. Despite his rising recognition and BJD’s rising numbers, Naveen has sided with NDA on issues of nationwide curiosity comparable to Article 370, CAA displaying a uncommon sense of political knowledge within the present occasions.

All this whereas, Naveen has remained deeply dedicated to improvement of the State by reaching out to the final mile by means of a bouquet of welfare programmes in agriculture, training and well being. At the identical time, with carefully-designed schemes like KALIA, Mission Shakti and temple improvement, he has remained miles forward of the Opposition. 

After pulling the State out of the morasses which the publish 1999 Super Cyclone had created, Naveen has turned to the brand new technology which is younger and aspirational. His politics too has undergone a change – a acutely aware shift to sports activities improvement which has made him a job mannequin within the nation as his promotion of hockey has introduced worldwide success for India. Focus on technology-driven governance, ability improvement and IT and ITES are different examples how he’s constantly forward of the curve.

He too faces challenges forward. The instant concern is the BJP’s progress. But understanding Naveen, he’ll counter BJP’s progress in addition to preserve the stability which he has executed so spectacularly properly to date.