Politics News Updates

BJD has set eyes on about 8 lakh first-time voters who are going to exercise their franchise in the upcoming elections.

Former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who quit the bench recently and joined the BJP, has been fielded from West Bengal's Tamluk seat.

A two-time MP, he has now been fielded from Kurukshetra for the coming polls.

The former army chief has been a two-time MP from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.

The BJD party's spreading red carpets for the leaders who contested against the BJD candidates in the 2019 elections is causing discontent among its leaders and workers.

They joined the BJP in the presence of BJP National General Secretary Vinod Tawde, Union Minister Anurag Thakur and BJP National Media Co-Head Sanjay Mayukh.

Meanwhile, reports suggest that actress Swara Bhasker is said to be one of the candidates that Congress is considering for the Mumbai North Central seat.

Sources said Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is likely to contest from Sambalpur, Sambit Patra from Puri and Aparajita Sarangi from Bhubaneswar in the upcoming Lok Sabha election.

This comes as the continuation of the EC's past practice of facilitating the Kashmiri migrant to vote through postal ballots and special polling stations set at Jammu, Udhampur, and New Delhi.

Not only the leaders but also the rank and file of the party are brimming with the confidence that they will form the government in Odisha.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Dilip Mallick trained his gun at the Congress over its statement on electoral bonds. 

It was a homecoming for Nayak as she distanced herself from the party after the 2009 elections when she contested from the Bhubaneswar Parliamentary seat on a BJP ticket and subsequently crossed over to the BJD. 

Senior Congress leader and Jatani MLA, Suresh Routray announced his retirement from electoral politics on Friday. 

The Aditya Birla Group topped the list of donors with a Rs 260 crore donation to the ruling party in Odisha through its associate companies.  

Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab resigned from the BJD's primary membership on Friday.