Patnaik takes oath for the fifth term

Npnews24 online: Naveen Patnaik, sworn in as odisha chief minister for the fifth term at Exhibition ground Bhubaneswar. BJD who won 12 out of the 21 Lok Sabha Seats, while 112 out of 147 seats in the assembly election, nearly six thousand attended attend the oath ceremony.

Patnaik is one of the longest serving CM of the state. This is the first time Naveen took oath on ground out of the Raj Bhavan.

Several BJD lawmakers on Tuesday said that they had received phone calls from Naveen Niwas, the residence of Mr Patnaik, informing them that they would be sworn-in as ministers.

Several senior leaders, who were ministers in the previous government, are likely to be re-inducted into the council of ministers again. They include Ashok Chandra Panda, Pratap Jena, Sushant Singh, Bikram Keshari Arukh, Prafulla Mallick and Niranjan Pujari