Naveen Patnaik seeks to boost morale of BJD leaders, assures them of leading from front
BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Thursday sought to boost the morale of the defeated party leaders and assured them that he would continue to lead them from the front. Patnaik lost power in Odisha after 24 years as his BJD failed to secure the majority in the state assembly, and even did not secure any Lok Sabha seat.
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Patnaik held a meeting with party leaders, who lost the seats they contested in simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly elections, at his residence Naveen Niwas. As many as 62 party MLAs and 12 MPs were defeated in the 2024 elections.
«We requested him to lead the party from the front and he assured us that he would guide us. He is the BJD's ultimate leader,» Pranab Prakash Das, the organisational secretary of the party, said.
Das himself lost in Sambalpur Lok Sabha seat by a margin of over 1 lakh votes to Union minister and BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan.
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