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Naveen aide Pandian says will not contest '24 polls
The Morning Standard
|December 16, 2023
CHIEF Minister Naveen Patnaik's close aide and chairman of 5T and Nabin Odisha VK Pandian on Friday announced he will not contest the 2024 elections.
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Addressing the extended executive meeting of BJD, Pandian said that the regional outfit will field candidates in all 147 Assembly constituencies under the leadership of the chief minister.
He said that this means the chief minister will represent all the 147 seats. "I will be behind the chief minister, helping him in all the 147 seats. I have no desire for any position," he added.
This story is from the December 16, 2023 edition of The Morning Standard.
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