<p class="title">Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday filed nomination papers seeking his re-election as the BJD president -- the post he had been holding since the regional outfit was formed on December 26, 1997.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Accompanied by senior leaders, MPs and MLAs, Patnaik arrived at the state headquarters of the Biju Janata Dal, a party he founded and named after former CM and his father Biju Patnaik, and submitted papers before returning officer P K Deb for the February 26 elections, party sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This is for the eighth consecutive time Patnaik filed his papers for the BJD's top post. He is the lone leader to have filed nomination for the post, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Organizational elections are held in the BJD every three years, in accordance with the party's by-law.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Other party functionaries also filed nominations for the BJD's state executive committee on Sunday, a source said, adding that the results would be declared on the day of polls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">BJD MP and party spokesperson Sasmit Patra said, "There were 100 required proposers for Patnaik's nomination, His name will be formally declared as the BJD president on February 26."</p>
<p class="title">Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday filed nomination papers seeking his re-election as the BJD president -- the post he had been holding since the regional outfit was formed on December 26, 1997.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Accompanied by senior leaders, MPs and MLAs, Patnaik arrived at the state headquarters of the Biju Janata Dal, a party he founded and named after former CM and his father Biju Patnaik, and submitted papers before returning officer P K Deb for the February 26 elections, party sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This is for the eighth consecutive time Patnaik filed his papers for the BJD's top post. He is the lone leader to have filed nomination for the post, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Organizational elections are held in the BJD every three years, in accordance with the party's by-law.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Other party functionaries also filed nominations for the BJD's state executive committee on Sunday, a source said, adding that the results would be declared on the day of polls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">BJD MP and party spokesperson Sasmit Patra said, "There were 100 required proposers for Patnaik's nomination, His name will be formally declared as the BJD president on February 26."</p>