Until less than a year before Pradeep Panigrahy’s expulsion from the party on Sunday and his arrest shortly after, Biju lawmaker Janata Dal was considered the first among equals in the 23-year-old regional party and one of the few with direct access to Prime Minister Naveen Patnaik. That Patnaik trusted …
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