Naveen Patnaik

He also served as Union Minister in Second Vajpayee ministry And Third Vajpayee ministry.He is son of former union minister and former chief minister Biju Patnaik. He is the founding chairperson of the Biju Janata Dal, serving since 1997, and has represented the Hinjili Assembly constituency since 2000. He also served as the Union Minister of Steel and Mines from 1998 to 2000 and as a member of the Lok Sabha from Aska from 1997 to 2000.

• Name — Naveen Patnaik • Office — Leader of the Opposition, Odisha Legislative Assembly • Term Start — 20 June 2024 • Governor — Raghubar Das Kambhampati Hari Babu • 1blankname — Chief Minister • 1namedata — Mohan Charan Majhi • Predecessor — Jayanarayan Mishra • Office1 — 14th Chief Minister of Odisha • Term Start1 — 5 March 2000 • Term End1 — 12 June 2024 • Governor1 — M. M. Rajendran Rameshwar Thakur Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare S. C. Jamir Satya Pal Malik Ganeshi Lal Raghubar Das • Predecessor1 — Hemananda Biswal • Successor1 — Mohan Charan Majhi • Subterm1 — Cabinet • Suboffice1 — Patnaik I Patnaik II Patnaik III Patnaik IV Patnaik V • Office2 — Member of Odisha Legislative Assembly • Term Start2 — 5 March 2000 • Predecessor2 — Udayanath Nayak • Constituency2 — Hinjili • Office3 — Union Minister of Mines and Minerals • Term Start3 — 13 October 1999 • Term End3 — 4 March 2000 • Prime Minister3 — Atal Bihari Vajpayee • Predecessor3 — Office established • Successor3 — Atal Bihari Vajpayee • Office4 — Union Minister of Steel and Mines • Term Start4 — 19 March 1998 • Term End4 — 13 October 1999 • Prime Minister4 — Atal Bihari Vajpayee • Predecessor4 — Birendra Prasad Baishya • Successor4 — Dilip Ray • Office5 — Chairperson of Biju Janata Dal • Term Start5 — 26 December 1997 • Predecessor5 — position established • Office6 — Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha • Term Start6 — 12 April 1997 • Term End6 — 4 March 2000 • Predecessor6 — Biju Patnaik • Successor6 — Kumudini Patnaik • Constituency6 — Aska • Born — 16 October 1946 • Birthplace — Cuttack, Orissa Province, British India (now Odisha, India) • Party — Biju Janata Dal (since 1997) • Other Party — Janata Dal (until 1997) • Father — Biju Patnaik • Mother — Gyan Patnaik • Relatives — Prem Patnaik (brother) Gita Mehta (sister) Sonny Mehta (brother-in-law) • Education — The Lawrence School, Sanawar The Doon School, Dehradun Kirori Mal College, Delhi (BA) • Occupation — * Politician • writer • Website — naveenpatnaik.in • Source — https: loksabha.nic.in/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=324&lastls=13

Patnaik was born on 16 October 1946 in an aristocratic Karan family to Biju Patnaik, former Chief Minister of Odisha, and his wife, Gyan Devi (1919-2009). He was educated at the Welham Boys' School in Dehradun, The Lawrence School, Sanawar and later The Doon School. At Doon, he was a classmate of Sanjay Gandhi and three years junior to Rajiv Gandhi, who later became prime minister of India. Naveen Patnaik with his father biju patnaik in 1950s. After school, he went to the Kirori Mal College of Delhi University, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree.

• Illustration — Naveen Patnaik at the Opening Ceremony Hockey World Cup 2018 After the death of his father Biju Patnaik, leader of the Janata Dal, he was elected as a member to the 11th Lok Sabha in the by-election from Aska Parliamentary Constituency in Odisha, India. 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 December 1997, Naveen split from the Janata Dal and founded the Biju Janata Dal, named after Biju Patnaik. The new party went into alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance for 1998 election. The alliance performed well winning 16 out of 21 seats and Naveen Patnaik was selected as the Union Minister for Mines in the cabinet of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

• Illustration — Sevayats of Lingaraj Temple inviting Naveen Patnaik for the Bhumipujan of Ekamra Prakalpa. 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. He took office on the 84th birth anniversary of his father. 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 in the Kandhamal district of Odisha in 2007–2008 and also the active participation of Bajrang Dal in the riots that hit Kandhamal region. 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. He did it after severely criticizing BJP's involvement in Kandhamal anti-Christian riots during 2008. 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. 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. In spite of 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. His 24-year tenure is the second longest for a chief minister of any Indian state, after Pawan Kumar Chamling of Sikkim.

The Biju Janata Dal was voted out of power in the 2024 Odisha Legislative Assembly election as the party managed to win 51 seats in Legislative Assembly of Odisha, thus ending Patnaik's 24-year rule in Odisha. Patnaik was himself defeated in Kantabanji constituency by 16,344 votes, marking his first electoral defeat. However, he did win the Hinjili seat with a margin of below 5000.In Lok Sabha elections, the BJD, for the first time, failed to win any of the seats it contested.

• # — Government — Designation — Portfolio — Tenure — Constituency — Party • Government of India • 1 — Vajpayee II — Cabinet Minister — Ministry of Steel & Ministry of Mines & Minerals — 19 March 1998 — 13 October 1999 — Aska — Biju Janata Dal • 2 — Vajpayee III — Cabinet Minister — Ministry of Mines & Minerals — 13 October 1999 — 4 March 2000 • Government of Odisha • 3 — Naveen I — Chief Minister — Chief Minister Office — 5 March 2000 — 15 May 2004 — Hinjili — Biju Janata Dal • 4 — Naveen II — Chief Minister — Chief Minister Office — 16 May 2004 — 21 May 2009 • 5 — Naveen III — Chief Minister — Chief Minister Office — 22 May 2009 — 20 May 2014 • 6 — Naveen IV — Chief Minister — Chief Minister Office — 21 May 2014 — 28 May 2019 • 7 — Naveen V — Chief Minister — Chief Minister Office — 29 May 2019 — 11 June 2024 • 8 — Leader of Opposition, Odisha Legislative Assembly — 19 June 2024 — Incumbent

• Illustration — Naveen Patnaik with BJD workers at his residence in 2024. • Year — Constituency — Party — Votes — % — Opponent — Opponent Party — Opponent Votes — % — Result — Margin — % • 1999 — Aska — Biju Janata Dal — 359,178 — 74.90 — Duti Krushna Panda — Communist Party of India — 102,442 — 21.36 — 256,736 — 53.54 • 1998 — 310,751 — 53.88 — Chandra Sekhar Sahu — Indian National Congress — 224,540 — 38.93 — 86,211 — 14.95 • Illustration — Naveen Patnaik at the Maa Samaleswari Temple, after inaugurating the Samaleswari Area Management and Local Economic Initiatives (SAMALEI) project in 2024.

• Year — Constituency — Party — Votes — % — Opponent — Opponent Party — Opponent Votes — % — Result — Margin — % • 2024 — Kantabanji — Biju Janata Dal — 74,532 — 36.56 — Laxman Bag — Bharatiya Janata Party — 90,876 — 44.57 — Lost — -16,344 — -8.01 • Hinjili — 66,459 — 46.85 — Sisir Mishra — 61,823 — 43.59 — 4,636 — 3.26 • 2019 — Bijepur — 110,604 — 59.78 — Sanat Kumar Gartia — 53,482 — 28.91 — 57,122 — 30.87 • Hinjili — 94,065 — 66.32 — Pitambar Acharya — 33,905 — 23.91 — 60,160 — 42.41 • 2014 — 89,267 — 73.14 — Sibaram Patra — Indian National Congress — 12,681 — 10.39 — 76,586 — 62.75 • 2009 — 72,942 — 76.04 — Raghaba Parida — 11,669 — 12.17 — 61,273 — 63.87 • 2004 — 62,968 — 72.71 — Udayanath Nayak — 20,326 — 23.47 — 42,642 — 49.24 • 2000 — 56,243 — 65.35 — 29,826 — 34.65 — 26,417 — 30.7

Patnaik is a writer and had spent most of his youth away from both politics and Odisha. However, after his father Biju Patnaik’s demise, he entered politics in 1997 and founded the Biju Janata Dal, named after his father. His mild manner and policies made his party hugely popular in the state.Patnaik is unmarried. He is also one of the founding members of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage. His elder sister was the writer Gita Mehta, who died in 2023.

• Year — Recognition — Organisation — Category — Ref. References • 2018 — Most Popular Chief Minister in India — India Today — India Today – Mood of the Nation • 2020 — Indo-Asian News Service — IANS–C Voter State of the Nation • 2021 — India Today — India Today – Mood of the Nation • 2021 — Best Chief Minister in India — ABP News — ABP News–C Voter #DeshKaMood • 2022 — Most Popular Chief Minister in India — India Today — India Today – Mood of the Nation • 2023 • 2024 • 2024 — Most Popular Chief Minister in India — NDTV — National Popularity Survey • 2024 — Best Chief Minister in India — ABP News — ABP News–C Voter #DeshKaMood

• In 2013, the United Nations 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 Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in 2015, which was held in Sendai, Japan, from 14 to 18 March 2015. • In 2019, the United Nations complimented Naveen for his government's proposal to reserve 33% of seats for women in the National Parliament as well as in the state's Legislative Assembly.

Recorded positions include Chief Minister of Odisha, Member of the Fourteenth Odisha Legislative Assembly, Member of the Fifteenth Odisha Legislative Assembly, Member of the Thirteenth Odisha Legislative Assembly and Member of the Twelfth Odisha Legislative Assembly.