Bhubaneswar (Odisha), May 24 -- : Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief Naveen Patnaik, who won effortlessly in the state Assembly elections, is set to return to power for a fifth consecutive term.
The veteran politician becomes the third chief minister after Sikkim's Pawan Chamling and West Bengal's Jyoti Basu, to achieve the feat.
As trends indicating his win came in Pattanaik thanked the people of Odisha for the "huge victory" as well as leaders and workers of BJD party.
"I would like to express my deep gratitude to the people of our state for having showered their blessings on us," he said.
The chief minister also thanked women voters "who came in large numbers to vote for us."
Patnaik who has been chief minister of...