Odisha rarely appears when the national media discusses country’s politics. But, that has changed to some extent since Wednesday evening when Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik suspended his party’s high-profile media-savvy MP Baijayant (Jay) Panda from the party for his anti-party activities. Anyone who follows Odisha politics even remotely was not surprised by this development, though Jay Panda pretends to be so. The four-time MP has been out of Patnaik’s favourite list since 2014 after his open flirting with BJP when Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister.