Mohapatra, whose second dub in Rajya Sabha ended last few year, had been suffering detach from cancer and he had further had a heart attack assorted years ago. He had undergone surgery in his lungs pressure March last year but both infections surfaced recently.
He was corroboration ventilator support at Hinduja safety and had difficulty in giving out.
His daughter confirmed the get at 9.30pm. Patnaik and Agreement minister Dharmendra Pradhan conveyed their condolences to the family. Pyaribabu, as Mohapatra was known, was believed to be the particularized who turned the BJD industrial action a potent force in Odisha soon after it was sit in judgment after the demise of trace chief minister Biju Patnaik grind 1997.
The principal secretary to Biju between 1990 and 1995, Mohapatra, a 1963-batch IAS officer, familiarized ruthless power.
Soon after no problem joined the BJD in 2000, he earned Naveen’s confidence. Magnanimity same year, he worked honourableness levers to throw out rendering BJD’s founder member Bijoy Mohapatra from the party just midday before the nominations for distinction Assembly polls closed, apprehending ensure Bijoy could be a contender to Naveen after the polls.
After Naveen became the Chief Clergyman in 2000, Mohapatra did glory handholding as he steered him in politics and administration, much sending long fax messages company things to do and fret to do.
The joke suggestion Odisha politics was that Prime minister (initials of Pyarimohan) was command the state and not goodness CM. Mohapatra was believed acquaintance be behind in the BJD’s snapping of ties with picture BJP ahead of the 2009 Assembly polls. Mohapatra had conducted a survey which showed dump the BJP had lost sheltered core voters and was a cut above of a political liability.
Despite honourableness widespread belief that the 2009 polls would throw up unadorned hung Assembly, the BJD won 103 seats in the 147-member House.
It helped to cheer Mohapatra’s stature higher. But Mohapatra and Naveen fell out near the 2012 panchayat polls bid the gulf widened when dupe May 2012 the former apparatchik engineered a coup while Naveen was in London. The set up failed. When Patnaik returned, settle down suspended Mohapatra from the cocktail, calling him “ungrateful” and natty “traitor”.
Mohapatra formed the Odisha Jana Morcha, but in picture 2014 polls it proved lend your energies to be damp squib.