"Warm greetings to former Prime Minister Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji on his birthday. I pray to God for his good health and long life," Patnaik tweeted.
Patnaik, who entered politics after the death of his father Biju Patnaik in 1997, was a union minister in the NDA government headed by Vajpayee.
It was under the gudiance of Vajpayee when Patnaik's regional outfit Biju Janata Dal (BJD) formed an alliance with BJP in Odisha. The BJD-BJP alliance ruled the state for about a decade from 2000 and broke just before 2009 general election.
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