Naveen Abdicates Bijepur

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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who won two seats in the recently-concluded assembly elections, Sunday decided to leave the Bijepur seat amid speculations about the fate of the two seats he had won simultaneously.
In a letter to the Odisha Legislative Assembly Speaker, the Chief Minister said he had decided to resign from the Bijepur assembly seat and retain his previously-held Hinjili constituency.
“Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had fought and won from two seats simultaneously – Hinjli and Bijepur. He has decided to retain the Hinjli seat and abdicate the Bijepur seat. As the Speaker of the House, it is my duty to inform the Election Commission about this on the next working day,” Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro told reporters Sunday.
Earlier, there were speculations about the most likely seat the BJD patriarch may choose to retain – either Bijepur in western Odisha or Hinjili in the east.
The panchayat elections in 2017 saw a surge of saffron votes especially in the western part of the state. Although the Chief Minister recently announced a slew of developmental measures for Bijepur area, he has now decided to leave the seat paving way for a by-election to the constituency.

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