Janaki Ballabh Patnaik

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Janaki Ballabh Patnaik is an Indian politician, and a former chief minister of Orissa, in which capacity he served for the longest time on record.The period in which Janaki Ballabh Pattanaik was chief minister of Orissa is also known as dark period in the history of Orissa.

Currently he is the Leader of the Opposition in the orissa Vidhan Parishad. Apart from that he is recognised as an eminent poet and writer, and has won awards from the Rajya Sahitya Academy and Kendra Sahitya Academy.

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• The Indian Express on Patnaik's marginalisation