Naveen Patnaik’s stupendous success in winning five successive Assembly elections to emerge as the most popular politician in the history of Odisha has been dissected, analysed and commented on extensively by the pundits. But there is one aspect of his unprecedented success that has not quite received the kind of attention it deserves: the BJD mascot’s seemingly unending ‘affair’ with the women of the state. While there is no way to find out the exact percentage of women voters who cast their votes in favour of Naveen (not the candidate, mind you!), estimates by commentators, observers and party insiders vary between 60 to 80 per cent.