Will Aparajita Sarangi be a good CM of Odisha?

 With Odisha Chief Minister perhaps being at the dusk of his political career, the ruling BJD is in a bit baffling situation regarding who is going to be Naveen Pattnaik's successor. While its old loyal ally BJP is also in a newly found synergized state of spirit for the next polls, few candidates are poping up in critics' and experts' mind and the former top IAS Bureaucrat Bhubaneswar MP Mrs. Aparajita Sarangi is one of them. The question is, can she make a good CM of Odisha? Can BJP win next Odisha polls if Mrs. Sarangi becomes the next CM candidate face?

People of Odisha are not even loyal to BJD, but to Naveen Pattnaik. There has been internal disputes, divisions and many other dramas inside BJD's party members, but Naveen has stayed well alert and proactive in keeping up the public welfare and interests. Odisha has seen very substantial growth amidst all adversities under Naveen's silent and practical leadership. Naveen's people-centric formula and approach has played the pivotal role in making Odisha blossoming with progress in various sectors despite many scams, corruption charges and copycat schemes of the Central Government. In addition to that, Naveen has stood tall with pillar support to public during natural calamities, disasters and pandemics. Especially his special attention, respect and welfare scheme for Health Sector service providers and frontline warriors during the last COVID-19 pandemic won millions of hearts all over the world.

Well, while I say that, I must admit the fact that BJP has never shown any interest to anyone’s personal goodwill. It has also mainly focused on performance of the candidates. Hence, people also argue in favour of other frontline BJP leaders of the state as next CM candidates. That is to say, will Dharmendra Pradhan or Baijayant Jay Panda or Sambit Patra be the next CM faces of BJP in Odisha? My answer is – anyone of them might be, but none of them actually enjoy Naveen’s one fourth popularity to be that close to the CM of Odisha. Aparajita Sarangi is extremely popular in Bhubaneswar but she definitely lacks a PAN-Odisha vision and administrative attribute.

Talking about BJP's selection tactics of CM candidates in its ruled states, you can easily figure out how skillful guts does Modi has. He has always kept media hypes miles apart from his party's key core discussions and decisions. Only performance based worthy candidates have won party’s trust in the end. Hence, taking these factors into considerations, it will be no wonder if Aparajita Sarangi becomes the next Chief Ministerial candidate of Odisha. Being an IAS officer, she knows very well how to take her standard of public service to next level and empowerment will only increase her ability and vision towards overall progress of the state, I confidently suppose.