Tag: Speaker Niranjan Pujari

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly was adjourned till tomorrow in respect to late chief minister of Tamil Nadu after paying rich tributes and observing one-minute silence for the departed soul today. “I would like to announce that the House will not transact any business today in respect to the late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa. […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The news of death of the senior Congress leader Lalatendu (Lulu) Bidyadhar Mohapatra came as a great shock to leaders across Odisha. Not only the Congress workers and followers of Lulu, but also the leaders cutting across party line expressed profound grief over the untimely death of the veteran leader, who breathed his […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the Odisha Assembly has failed to transact any business for the last 10 days due to the deadlock over Opposition’s demand for chit fund commission head MM Das’ ouster and CM’s resignation, an unsavory scene was seen today in the Assembly building when security personnel forcibly lifted the SC/ST MLAs of Congress […]

Bhubaneswar: After the all-party meet held on Saturday failed to yield any result, Speaker Niranjan Pujari will convene the meeting again today in an effort to end the logjam in Odisha Assembly. The House has faced repeated adjournments for the last seven days over the deposit of Rs 8 crore in BJD account in a […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly Speaker Niranjan Pujari on Wednesday adjourned the House sine die concluding the winter session ten days before the schedule. The winter session, which began on December 1, was scheduled to end on December 26. However, citing no business the House was adjourned ten days earlier. On the last day of the winter […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly witnessed uproar for the sixth consecutive day today over farmers’ issues forcing Speaker Niranjan Pujari to adjourn the House twice till 3 pm. While the question hour was washed away due to ruckus created by both Congress and BJP members demanding formation of a House Committee to probe the suicides of […]