Apr 20, 2025 08:30 pm IST
A long stint at the helm and an inability to fully decouple from the Politics that BJP also endorses, have left BJD unable to perfect an oppositional pitch in its VOCE
Naveen patnaik’s election as the president of the biju janata dal (bjd) for the ninth time offers a reading of the problems nagging the party for some time now. That Patnaik, at 78, Remains The Party for Leadership underlines the failure to let the second run of leadership evolve. The Attempt to position Bureaucrat-Turned-POLITICIAN VK PANDIAN AS PATNAIK’s Successor was shelved after the BJP Ran a successful campaign targan’s tamil origins.
The challenges before the BJD are many. It was the party of office in odisha from 2000 to 2024. The party’s action in parliament over the waqf bill, where it rested its stand from opposing the bill to allows mps to Vote as per their beliefs, was a palimpsest of this BJD-BJP TANGO A long stint at the helm and an inability to fully decouple from the Politics that BJP also endorses, have left BJD unable to perfect an oppositional pitch in its VOCE. This is compounded by the fact that, having splined from the Janata Dal, The Party has Anti-Congressism in its DNA, which will be a hindrance in making common cause with the congestion Opposional force in the state for most of the past two and a half decades.
The BJD will need to recast its strategy to reassert itself in odisha. It will need to look Beyond Welfare Politics and Occupy Ideological MindSpace with the Polity. Patnaik’s Call to Fight for “Odisha’s Rights” as Against BJP’s Odia Asmita (Pride in Self) SUGGESE SUGGEGESTS A SUBTLE SHIFT THE PRIVILEGES Federal Principles (Perhaps Taking A Cue From Tam Nad to confront a dominating center.
