India, April 21 -- 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's choice for leadership underlines its failure to let a second rung 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 targeting Pandian's Tamil origins....