{"id":312684,"date":"2019-05-29T06:51:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T06:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312684"},"modified":"2019-05-29T06:51:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T06:51:21","slug":"naveen-patnaik-takes-oath-as-odisha-cm-for-fifth-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/naveen-patnaik-takes-oath-as-odisha-cm-for-fifth-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Naveen Patnaik takes oath as Odisha CM for fifth term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312685 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/naveen-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/naveen-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/naveen-539x420.jpg 539w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/naveen.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday took oath as the chief minister of Odisha at a function in Bhubaneswar. He was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Ganeshi Lal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Patnaik was sworn in as the chief minister for the fifth term after his party Biju Janata Dal (BJD) secured 112 of the 147 seats in the state assembly elections held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is one of the longest-serving chief ministers, managed to retain the state for the fifth consecutive term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Apart from Chief minister&#8217;s elder brother Prem Patnaik and sister Gita Mehta, a celebrated writer, more than 7,000 dignitaries attended the swearing-in ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Tuesday, 11 cabinet ministers and nine ministers of state were appointed on Patnaik&#8217;s recommendation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Naveen Patnaik said in a tweet, \u201cIt\u2019s a nostalgic and personal journey for me to reminiscence the past 19 years. Today while I take oath of office for the 5th term, I humbly accept the responsibility that comes with the faith my 4.5 crore family members have reposed on me, yet again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Patnaik on taking oath. He assured the Odisha Chief Minister of Centre\u2019s \u2018complete cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongratulations to Shri Naveen Patnaik Ji on taking oath as Odisha\u2019s Chief Minister. Best wishes to him and his team in fulfilling the people\u2019s aspirations. I assure complete cooperation from the Centre in working for Odisha\u2019s progress,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday took oath as the chief minister of Odisha at a function in Bhubaneswar. He was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Ganeshi Lal. Patnaik was sworn in as the chief minister for the fifth term after his party Biju Janata Dal (BJD) secured 112 of the 147 seats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2916,1801,2014],"tags":[4580,2174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312686,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312684\/revisions\/312686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}