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VK Pandian calls it quits days after BJD's poll debacle
The New Indian Express
|June 10, 2024
Bhubaneswar IN a significant development, bureaucrat-turned politician VK Pandian, Biju Janata Dal supremo Naveen Patnaik's close aide and confidant, on Sunday announced his retirement from active politics.
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Five days after the regional party was voted out of power by a mandate that was overwhelmingly in favour of the BJP, Pandian took to social media platform Instagram to announce he was quitting active politics. Pandian was under fire for the spectacular slump of the BJD in the 2024 elections which ended Naveen's five terms as CM of the state. In the just-concluded twin elections, the BJP received a historic mandate, romping home with 20 out of 21 LS seats and 78 in the State Assembly.
This story is from the June 10, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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