Bureaucracy doesn’t run Odisha, it’s me & my ministers who do: Naveen

Bhubaneswar: Amid growing perceptions that Odisha is being run by the bureaucrats led by a coterie, Odisha CM and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik today categorically refuted such charges. Terming it as a misconception, Patnaik said that it's the government, ministers and him who are running the State.

In an interview with the managing editor of NDTV Sreenivasan Jain, Patnaik, when asked on the regular cry about bureaucrats running Odisha, said, "I think it's nonsensical. The cry about bureaucrats has always been there, from 2000 onwards." It's the government, the ministers and me who run the State, Patnaik clarified.