By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday while extending birthday greetings wished a long and healthy life to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on his 77th Birthday today.
“My greetings to Odisha CM Shri Naveen Patnaik Ji on his birthday. May he be blessed with a long and healthy life. @Naveen_Odisha,’ PM Modi said in an X post.
Meanwhile, CM Patnaik is not celebrating his birthday this year due to the death of his elder sister Geeta Mehta last month.
CM had also requested his well-wishers not to visit his residence ‘Naveen Niwas’ in Bhubaneswar on Monday (October 16) to wish him.
Born on 16 October in 1946, Patnaik is the longest-serving Chief Minister of Odisha and as of 2023, one of the longest-serving Chief Ministers of any Indian state, holding the post for over two decades, and only the third Indian Chief Minister after Pawan Chamling and Jyoti Basu to win five consecutive terms as Chief Minister of an Indian state.
He first became an MP, then a Union Minister and after that assumed the office as the 22nd Chief Minister of Odisha.
