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Former Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal supremo Naveen Patnaik connected Friday (December 26, 2025) deed retired astatine the Opposition, accusing immoderate sections of spreading misinformation that the BJD would interruption apart, and asserted the enactment would endure and stay applicable for much than 100 years.
Addressing BJD’s 29th Foundation Day here, Mr. Patnaik said, “in a democracy, determination are victories and defeats. Now, immoderate radical and immoderate parties are spreading misinformation astir us. Rumours are being dispersed that the BJD volition interruption apart.”
“I privation to marque it wide that the BJD is not astir 1 oregon 2 leaders. It is simply a people’s movement, profoundly connected to Odia aspirations and pride. The BJD exists and volition proceed to beryllium the dependable of the radical of Odisha for the adjacent 100 years,” helium said.
Later, the BJD held a property league saying misinformation astir imaginable announcement astir successor to Mr. Patnaik was nothing, but a mischief by immoderate Opposition parties and conception of media.
Former Odisha CM said, “The BJD is simply a palmy determination enactment of the country. Since 1997, we person been serving the radical of Odisha by pursuing the ideals of Biju Babu (legendary Biju Patnaik).”
“The play from 2000 to 2024 was the aureate epoch successful Odisha’s improvement history. We fought poverty, starvation, babe mortality, and earthy calamities and we succeeded. We gave Odisha a caller identity. We empowered women, accrued farmers’ incomes, provided escaped healthcare done schemes similar Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojna, strengthened the State’s economy, attracted concern to the State, and generated employment for the youth,” said Mr. Patnaik.
Taking a excavation astatine Bharatiya Janata Party Government, helium said, “at present, a alleged double-engine authorities is moving successful Odisha. But wherever is the development? Farmers are not getting fertilisers. Mandis are not opening. Mission Shakti women are being harassed. The younker are disheartened. In the past 18 months of the double-engine government, 18 question papers person been leaked.”
“It does not consciousness similar determination is simply a functioning authorities successful the State. It is amended not to adjacent talk astir instrumentality and order. Atrocities against women are increasing, and adjacent insignificant girls are not safe,” said the seasoned politician.
