Three-time Odisha CM Janaki Ballabh Patnaik passes away Tuesday April 21,2015

 

Former Odisha chief minister and senior Congress leader Janaki Ballabh Patnaik(89) passed away in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, early on Tuesday morning

J B Patnaik was in the temple town to attend the convocation ceremony of the Rashtriya Sanskrit University at Tirupati.

J B Patnaik was admitted to a local hospital after he complained of chest pain late last night.

J B Patnaik's body will be brought to Bhubaneswar this afternoon and his last rites will be performed in Puri

J B Patnaik was born on January 3, 1927.  A leader of the Indian National Congress, he was Chief Minister of Odisha from 1980 to 1989 and again from 1995 to 1999, holding that post for the longest time on record before Naveen Patnaik

J B Patnaik had been the Governor of Assam between 2009 and 2014.