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UNCERTAINTY OVER a popular healthcare scheme launched by the Naveen Patnaik government in 2018, which the BJP had promised to replace with the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat Yojana if it came to power in Odisha, has led to complaints of empanelled private hospitals turning away patients within days of a change of guard in the state.
Apart from losing his Chief Minister chair of 24 years, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik also lost the Kantabanji Assembly seat that he contested from.
Forced to plunge into politics “reluctantly” at the age of 51, following the death of his father Biju Patnaik, Naveen Patnaik has never found himself in the Opposition space in the state. The Biju Janata Dal he founded in 2000 only grew from strength to strength — till this election.
With Odisha’s longest serving chief minister Naveen Patnaik tendering his resignation on Wednesday, a day after his party’s stunning defeat in the assembly polls, speculation is rife on who the BJP will pick to succeed him.
The BJP is set to form its first full-majority government in Odisha with the party leading in around 80 seats, six more than the majority mark in the 147-member Assembly.
Powered by an aggressive campaign over an emotional narrative of Odia Asmita (pride), the BJP Tuesday stopped its former ally BJD from taking reins of Odisha for a record sixth straight term.
In a setback for the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD), rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken an impressive lead in both the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections in Odisha.