Bhubaneswar: Confirming widespread speculation, V Karthikeyan Pandian, the Chairman of 5T and former bureaucrat, officially joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Monday. His induction into the party took place at Naveen Niwas, in the presence of party supremo Naveen Patnaik and other key party figures. This development unfolded subsequent to Pandian’s voluntary retirement from…