Odisha's political landscape shifts from bureaucratic dominance under V K Pandian to questions of MLA power, administrative accountability and governance. Odisha seems to be witnessing an interesting, if somewhat disturbing, transformation in the relationship between its political class and the bureaucracy. During the last years of the Naveen Patnaik government, the principal criticism was that elected representatives, including Cabinet ministers and MLAs, had become increasingly powerless in the face of an unelected.