Why is Odisha CM Naveen silent on BJP’s prickly questions?

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has remained silent amid escalating attacks from BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, who questioned his governance on several scams and mismanagement. The BJP has promised transformative changes if elected, while BJD maintains a strategic silence, raising public suspicion.

A photo of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik

Starting from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to BJP National President JP Nadda, the saffron party’s Central leaders have been frequently targeting Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik, raking up a host of issues like the multi-crore mining scam, chit fund scam, the DMF fund mismanagement, bureaucratic hegemony, proxy governance by a ‘Tamil Babu,’ the missing keys of Srimandir Ratna Bhandar, and the non-opening of all four gates of Srimandir.

Surprisingly, the Chief Minister is not retorting back to the attacks but is maintaining silence.