Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik resigns after electoral defeat, BJP to form new govt
Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], June 5 (ANI): Subsequent to experiencing a gigantic loss in the State Gathering and Parliamentary decisions, the 24-year-old residency of Odisha CM and BJD boss Naveen Patnaik closed as he presented his renunciation to the Odisha Lead representative Raghubar Das at the Raj Bhavan in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday.
The Biju Janata Dala which has controlled Odisha beginning around 1997 lost to the BJP breaking the 24-year-old rule of Naveen Patnaik as the Central Pastor.
The Bhartiya Janata Party got 78 seats in the 147-seat get together. The BJD got 51 seats far behind the greater part characteristic of 74 and the Indian Public Congress got 14 seats.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha surveys additionally BJP performed well by getting 20 out of the 21 parliamentary seats of the express, the leftover one seat was won by Congress.
Naveen Patnaik had made a startling passage into state governmental issues through the BJD, a party named after his dad, the previous Odisha CM Biju Patnaik.
His political excursion started with a triumph in the 1998 Lok Sabha bypoll, addressing his dad's electorate of Aska. Following the BJD's progress in the 2000 Gathering decisions, shaping an alliance with the BJP and acquiring a greater part, Patnaik left his situation in the Association Bureau to expect the job of boss priest.
From that point forward, he has been the second longest-serving Boss Priest after Sikkim CM Pawan Kumar Chamling.
The counting of the 2024 Lok Sabha decisions was hung on Tuesday. As per the Political race Commission of India, the BJP won 240 seats, much lower than its 2019 count of 303. The Congress, then again, enlisted areas of strength for a, triumphant 99 seats. The INDIA coalition crossed the 230 imprint, presenting tough opposition, and resisting all forecasts.
State head Narendra Modi has gotten a third term, yet the BJP should depend on the help of different gatherings in his alliance - JD (U) boss Nitish Kumar and TDP's boss Chandrababu Naidu.
BJP fell 32 seats shy of the 272 greater part mark after votes surveyed in the 2024 Lok Sabha races were counted. Interestingly, since the Bharatiya Janata Party cleared to drive in 2014, it didn't get a greater part all alone.