Patnaik flew in a Dakota aircraft and rescued Indonesian Vice President Mohammad Hatta and Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir on July 21, 1947. The Dutch threatened to shoot down his aircraft but Patnaik replied that if his aircraft was shot down, no Dutch aircraft would be able to fly across Indian skies.
Naveen Patnaik asked all the members of the Odisha assembly to support to elect the daughter of Odisha Draupadi Murmu to the country's highest office."
The Congress on Friday went on to demand the resignation of Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik, stating that the State govt tried to distort facts by terming Mahatma Gandhi death an accident.