Federal Front: Uneasy and uncertain

One of his party seniors had once drawn Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s attention to similarities between him and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee: “Both of you are single, chief ministers, floated your own party.” Patnaik listened patiently. But when the person said, “Both of you are painters and love to draw flowers,” Patnaik, a connoisseur of art, cut him short: “No way! I am a follower of the Abanindranath Tagore school of art. She belongs to Kalighat patachitra.”

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