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Vaishnaw had never been in parliament when he was named as the BJP candidate in 2019 despite the party lacking the numbers in the state assembly.

Construction of a grand Ram Temple was one of the main election planks of BJP for many decades and the PM, known as a dyed-in-the wool Hindu nationalist, wanted to reap maximum political dividend out of the much-awaited consecration of the temple.

The term “gig” means a job that is temporary or freelancing in nature. Thus, a gig worker is one, who is engaged in a temporary or freelancing job. However, not all the references to gig are associated with the nature of the job. There are employees whose engagement is permanent but their approach is like that of a “gig worker”.

As of December 2021, the maximum share of “sanctioned strength” of employees was for the School and Mass Education Department at 40 % followed by the Home Department at 14% and the Health and Family Welfare Department at 11%.

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The Boss is now resigned, for whatever reason, to his former secretary running both the party and the state by proxy while he cools his heels inside the fortified confines of Naveen Nivas.

As per official reports, the OS shops in 2022-23 utilised 15.34 lakh quintals of Mohua flower for producing liquor. The official figure that the OS shops produced in 2022-23 as much as 644 lakh London Proof Litres of liquor is too fancifully large to be believed.

Those who think Naveen Patnaik finally has chosen his successor are, therefore, not off the mark. That explains why Pandian’s formal entry to the Party has created the present buzz, and why there is so much of discussion everywhere.

The Pandian era has formally begun in BJD and after the coming assembly elections, the ‘de facto’ power centre will, in all probability, become the ‘de jure’ power centre in Odisha’s ruling party.

The State Cabinet’s November 14 decision on Odisha Schedule Areas Transfer of Immovable Property (OSATIP) Regulations and its subsequent withhold and referral to the Tribes Advisory Council (TAC) to reconsider the matter has raised questions whether the Odisha government is really concerned about the development of tribals.

There is little doubt that Pandian will call all the shots in the ruling party - and the government if the party, as widely expected, get another term in office.

“Nabin Odisha” has emerged as a scheme of the Government of Odisha, and, by a formal government notification, Shri VK Pandian, the erstwhile Private Secretary to Odisha’s Chief Minister for years

If there is one person who is discussed more than CM Naveen Patnaik or even PM Narendra Modi among the educated and conscious citizenry of Odisha, he is none other than Mr. V. K Pandian, voluntarily retired IAS, ex-private secretary to the CM.

He has taken voluntary retirement from IAS with nearly a decade left of his service not to become an also-ran in the ruling party, but because he wants to be numero uno.

For critics, this has been a saga of skulduggery perpetrated by persons whose duty was to protect and preserve constitutional niceties.