Tag: Aska Lok Sabha

Bhubaneswar: They say charity begins at home and BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who declared to nominate women in 33 per cent Lok Sabha constituencies, seems to have been following it  if reports of  a woman candidate from BJD being fielded from the Aska Lok Sabha constituency, are to be believed. Naveen launched […]

Bhubaneswar: Aska, the sugar town of Odisha and the second largest city in Ganjam district, had been once a bastion of communists. For which the ‘sweet’ hub has earned the epithet of ‘Red land’ in Ganjam district. Since the formation of the Lok Sabha constituency in 1971,  though communists had won the seat once, the […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president, Naveen has been extremely lucky in politics. Making a reluctant entry into the political arena in 1997 following his father, Biju Patnaik’s death he won the Aska Lok Sabha by-election without much difficulty. Back then he could barely speak Odia and the opposition sought to make […]