Vatican City, June 23, 2022: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on June 22 met Pope Francis in the Vatican.
“It has been an absolute pleasure meeting His Holiness Pope Francis in Vatican City. Thanked him for the warm audience and wished him good health and long life,” Patnaik said on his social media post.
On behalf of Odisha, Patnaik presented the Pope a “Pattachitra” painting that depicts the Tree of Life. The unique ancient traditional scroll painting is one of the finest representatives of Odisha’s craftsmanship and artistry.
Many Catholic priests and nuns from India, who were at the Vatican, were happy to see Odisha Chief Minister. They wished him well.
Patnaik is on his 11-day tour to Rome and Dubai with a high-level delegation, which is scheduled to visit the World Food Program headquarters in Rome and share Odisha’s “transformational journey” in food security and disaster management.
Source: https://www.rvasia.org/vatican-news/eastern-indian-states-chief-minister-naveen-patnaik-meets-pope-francis
Outwardly Patnaik is gentle and all good. If so why he never cared to protect the Christians from fundamentalists ? He has never visited the locations where cruelty was perpetrated by the fundamentalists
Where were you CMji when hundreds were raped and killed and thousands of houses were burnt in Kandamal?
Naveen Patnaik must do a sincere introspection to see what he has done to protect Christians in his State from RSS, VHP and Sangh Parivar.