Veteran media person Ruben Banerjee’s book on Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik , published by Amazon to be released on 31st July .
Naveen stepped forward to contest the by-election to the Lok Sabha seat that lay empty after his father’s death. Then fifty-one years old, Naveen, who once ran a boutique in Delhi, had never contested an election before or held public office. He spoke no Odia and was more at home in the cocktail circuit of Lutyens’ Delhi and with his circle of international jet setting friends, including Jackie Kennedy and Robert De Niro, than in the dusty and dirt-poor villages of Odisha.
Party men saw Naveen only as a magnet for attracting voters sympathetic to Biju, not as a genuine politician or leader. But Naveen shocked his sceptics by winning every single election he contested: he’s been elected to the Lok Sabha three times, and as chief minister of Odisha four times. Even the Modi wave of 2014 didn’t make a dent on Naveen’s numbers. He not only has an abiding connect with his voters but he also proved himself a shrewd and Machiavellian operator by wresting absolute control of his party from the patriarchs of his father’s days and other potential rivals. In this book,
The veteran journalist Ruben Banerjee, who has followed Naveen since his early days, decodes and explains the success of the enigmatic politician who stays in the shadows and rarely gives interviews. This is the thrilling story of an unlikely and seemingly unbeatable politician who may well hold the keys to power in the 2019 general elections.
Earlier Banerjee’s book on Odisha cyclone was published and was highly appreciated by the readers all over.
The latest book of Ruben on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik , published by Amazon to be released on 31st July.
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