Tag: Dubious Poll Funding

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) today hit back at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the dubious poll funding row and dubbed the latter as a party with a tendency to politicise each and every issue. Speaking to media persons, a day after the Supreme Court (SC) issued notices to BJD supremo and Chief […]

Bhubaneswar: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday issued notices to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, State Election Commission (SEC), the district collector of Ganjam and the district electoral officer in connection with the dubious poll funding case. Hearing the petition filed by Subash Mohapatra seeking transfer of the case to Delhi High Court, the apex […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court today deferred hearing of the two petitions over the alleged discrepancies in poll expenses of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The hearing of the petition of BJP’s defeated Hinjili candidate Debanand Mohapatra and activist Subash Mohapatra has been scheduled to September 6. While on July 31, the court had scheduled hearing […]

Bhubaneswar: A team of BJP delegates, led by party’s State Vice-President Samir Mohanty, met Governor SC Jamir today over the alleged discrepancies in the poll expenses of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his party BJD. The team submitted a memorandum to Jamir seeking his intervention on the issue. Earlier on Friday, the BJP had moved […]

Bhubaneswar:While the BJP moved the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seeking a probe into dubious poll funding charges against CM Naveen Patnaik, his party BJD today claimed the allegations as baseless and sought an apology from BJP. “BJP has jumped onto the bandwagon which is unfortunate. I hope that the BJP has the good grace to issue […]

Cuttack: While the blame game and war of words over the alleged dubious poll funding by the BJD during the 2014 general election is still on, the Ganjam collector has filed a recall petition in Orissa High Court today to dismiss the writ petition as the petitioner is not a resident of the concerned constituency. […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court today adjourned to Monday the hearing on a bunch of pleas alleging discrepancies in the poll expenses of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his party BJD. The bench of Justice S K Mishra adjourned the hearing till July 31 when the counsel for various parties, including the one for the […]