Mohanty, Manoranjan creator text xu| 2004 continuing ng p.4702-703. Kishen Pattnayak's concept of politics was the comprehensive pursuit of social transformation. He was a radical who centred his activities on social movements, while simultaneously participating in electoral politics through the instrumentality of a political party. In both, the stress was on principles and ideology, whatever the length of time and sacrifice it might involve. He pursued peaceful struggles for social change and had debates with the Naxalites on this issue. - Reproduced. Pattnayak, Kishen Economic and Political Weekly 180718