Tag: 2014 Elections

RTI activist alleges dubious funding by Odisha CM during 2014 elections

Bhubaneswar: RTI activist Subhas Mohapatra has alleged discrepancies in the data on 2014 election expenditure submitted by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik before the Election Commission. The news came to fore after an English News channel ‘Times Now’ aired a report titled ‘#NaveenHawalaGhotala.” According to sources, Subhas, questioning the irregularities in election funding data, has moved […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
Pre-poll statement cost Niranjan his candidature!

Bhubaneswar: Former Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik’s rebellious statement in the recent past expressing unwillingness to contest this year’s General Elections under the leadership of incumbent party chief Jayadev Jena has cost him his candidature, most likely. Although the grand old party came out with a list of candidates for two Lok […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Odisha polls on Apr 10 & 17, more forces sought

Bhubaneswar: The Election Commission on Wednesday sounded the poll bugle, announcing a nine-phase election to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies of 28 states and seven union territories between April 7 and May 12. Odisha will have simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in two phases on April 10 and 17. While 10 parliamentary segments […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Bhupinder quits Cong, to join BJD?

Edited by Bijayashree Parida Bhubaneswar: In a possible setback to Odisha Congress, which is making desperate attempts to bring the party to life ahead of the 2014 elections, senior leader Bhupinder Singh is rumoured to have quit the party and is willing to join the BJD. Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly, Singh […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Odisha Cong apprehends EVMs could be tampered

Bhubaneswar: Alleging a nexus between ruling BJD and officials to rig the recent elections in Odisha by using money and muscle power, Congress today apprehended attempts to tamper EVMs stored in strong rooms and asked all political parties to be vigilant. “Tall claims of having conducted a free and fair elections in Odisha are hollow […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
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Maoists send letter to Odisha govt

Malkangiri: After disrupting polling in 15 places during first phase of Lok Sabha elections, Maoists have sent a letter to the Odisha government through polling officials demanding that operations against them be halted. The letter carried by a six-member polling party, that was detained by Maoists yesterday and released today, handed over the letter to […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Odisha TMC candidate condemns poll polarisation

Cuttack: Knowing well that it would cause embarrassment to his party colleagues, All India Trinamool Congress candidate Jibesh Kishore Sundaray, contesting from the Cuttack Lok Sabha seat today disapproved of the attempts by certain political parties to polarise elections in the country on religious line. Addressing newsmen here, the model-turned-politician Sundaray also condemned the recent […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
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BJP claims edge over BJD & Cong in today's polls

Bhubaneswar: BJP today exuded confidence of getting an edge over the ruling BJD and opposition Congress after today’s brisk polling in parts of southern and western Odisha. “We are optimistic about getting more number of seats, both in Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the first phase,” BJP state president K V Singhdeo said in […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
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Villagers boycott vote in Hinjili and Kandhamal

Berhampur: Voters in a village under Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s Hinjli Assembly segment in the Ganjam district today boycotted elections protesting lack of development. Around 560 voters of Chikili village under Sheragada block’s Takarada gram panchayat stayed away from voting in protest against the state government’s apathy towards development in their village. An officer on […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
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Sushma gives Odisha rallies a miss

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj’s public meetings were cancelled today at the eleventh hour, while BJD chief Naveen Patnaik continued campaigning for party candidates for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections without taking a break. With Swaraj failing to turn up at rallies scheduled in Keonjhar and Kendrapara, BJP’s Odisha in-charge Arun Singh […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
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Modi not good for country, says Naveen Patnaik

New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik has slammed Narendra Modi by describing him as a “controversial” prime ministerial candidate who is not “healthy” for the country due to his communal background. He also said his party would maintain an “equidistance” both from Congress and BJP even after the elections and it […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Three district magistrates of Odisha under ECI scanner: Brahma

Bhubaneswar: At least three District Magistrates of Odisha are under the scanner of the Election Commission of India (ECI) for their alleged partisan conduct while managing election affairs, official sources said today. “We met representatives of eight political parties today. Five of the eight parties have complained against three district magistrates engaged as election officers […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
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CPM favours hike in labourers' minimum monthly wage to Rs 10K

Bhubaneswar: Terming ruling BJD in Odisha as well as opposition Congress and BJP as pro-capitalist parties, CPI(M) today favoured increase of minimum monthly wages of labourers to Rs 10,000 and various social security allowances to Rs 1,000. “We are opposed to the existing economic policy adopted by both the UPA government and previous NDA regime […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Filing of nominations concludes

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister and senior Congress leader Srikant Jena, BJD’s Baijayant Panda and BJP leader Bijoy Mohapatra were among the candidates who filed nomination today in 11 lok sabha and 77 Assembly seats for the second phase elections to be held on april 17. Srikant Jena, Union minister for chemicals and fertilisers, filed his nomination […]

  • Monday, 21 June 2021
BJD-JMM Assembly seat adjustment attempt fails

Talks on seat sharing between ruling BJD and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha for the Odisha Assembly elections have failed following the latter's demand for more seats, a senior BJD leader claimed

  • Monday, 21 June 2021
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