{"id":2806,"date":"2009-11-21T18:47:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T22:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2009-11-21T18:47:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T22:47:26","slug":"j-b-janaki-bhallav-patnaik-appointed-as-governor-of-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/2806","title":{"rendered":"J B (Janaki Bhallav) Patnaik appointed as Governor of Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following are some biographical pointers excerpted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tathya.in\/2009\/story.asp?sno=3490\" target=\"_self\">this article in tathya.in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>JB born on 3 January, 1927 is one of the senior most leader of the Indian National Congress.<\/p>\n<p>And as former Chief Minister of Odisha he served for the longest time on record.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the completion of his early education at Khurda High School, he passed his B.A. degree in Sanskrit from the Utkal University in 1947.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He passed his M.A. degree in Political Science from the Banaras Hindu University in 1949.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1950, he became the President of the Odisha State unit of the Youth Congress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He edited Prajatantra and Eastern Times for a long period.<\/p>\n<p>In 1980, he became the Union Minister for Tourism, Civil Aviation and Labour. And later he took over as the Chief Minister of Odisha.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He continued till 1989 and later in 1995 he became CM for the third time and handed over the reins to Giridhar Gamang in 1999.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later in 2004 he became the Leader of Opposition and continued till 2008.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is recognised as an eminent poet and writer, and has won awards from the Odisha Sahitya Akademi and Kendriya Sahitya Akademi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following are some biographical pointers excerpted from this article in tathya.in. JB born on 3 January, 1927 is one of the senior most leader of the Indian National Congress. And as former Chief Minister of Odisha he served for the longest time on record.&nbsp; After the completion of his early education at Khurda High School, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orissa-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}