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"We will raise the issue (special category status) during the NITI Aayog meeting in New Delhi. Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik has decided to raise the long-standing demand of special category status (SCS) for the state at the NITI Aayog meeting, to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday. Mishra asked.BJP spokesperson Sajjan Sharma said Naveen has kept a dead issue alive just for political reasons. "Special category status is a long standing demand of Odisha. But the BJD uses it as a political propaganda to target successive Union governments, helping it garner votes..