BHUBANESWAR: His party colleagues and even babus may have been Facebook (FB) freaks, but the bug has not bitten Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik yet. On Saturday, his office declared that Naveen does not have an FB account. “Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is not a member of the Facebook. Neither has he an account in official capacity nor personally,” the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) stated in a press release.What prompted the CMO to issue clarification was that a number of Facebook accounts pertaining to Naveen are in circulation on the social networking site.A search of Naveen Patnaik on Facebook throws up at least three pages which have been receiving comments and reactions from different members. All of them are hoaxes.One community page on Naveen, which describes him as Chief Minister of Odisha and BJD supremo, is liked by as many as 537 members. There are almost daily updates on the page. Even as Naveen makes noises about the NCTC, the February 29 update on the page read like this : “Hit “LIKE” if you want Naveen Jee as national leader ..........!”A day before the update was a post (in atrocious English): “People must think about what oppositions behaving in house during budget sessions and don’t forget its just not wastage of time but also wastage of peoples money.” Another page, which describes Naveen as public figure and has over 2,000 likes, continues to receive comments. While some comments are positive, some are critical of Naveen.Needless to say, the CMO made it amply clear that members of FB must not mistake that Naveen has any account on the site and advised people not to be misled by the comments and reactions.
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