Tag: Baijayant Panda

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: A team of BJP including Union Minister Piyush Goyal, party’s national vice president Baijayant Panda and spokesperson Sambit Patra met the Election Commission of India today alleging conspiracy by BJD president and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik to stop Patkura Assembly polls. After meeting the EC, Sambit Patra said that the BJP wants a […]

New Delhi: Exuding confidence that BJP will win maximum number of Lok Sabha seats in Odisha, party’s national vice president Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda said Bharatiya Janata Party is growing in the State whereas the performance of other parties has come down massively. While leaders of the Opposition have already started blaming EVM following exit poll […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: With five out of BJP’s eight Lok Sabha seats coming from western Odisha it is clear that the party’s growth in the state has been lopsided. While it has strengthened itself further in the western belt, its traditional stronghold, it has not been able to make any significant inroads into the […]

Bhubaneswar: Along with the rest of the world, the fifth International Yoga Day was observed across Odisha on Friday, with yoga camps organised at several locations. Poeple from all walks of life participated in yoga programmes at several places of the State. Governor Ganeshi Lal and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Vice President Baijayant Panda […]

Kendrapara: Eagerly awaiting rail connectivity in the area, people of Kendrapara today witnessed the first-ever and successful trial run of a rail engine on the Haridaspur-Kendrapara route. A pilot engine left Haridaspur station at 9 am and was run till Bajapur in presence of railway officials in order to check the rail line and the […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 15 labourers from Kendrapara district who are stranded in Kuwait will return to Odisha soon, Indian Embassy based in Kuwait informed on Thursday. BJP National Vice President and former Kendrapara MP Jay Panda had sought the Indian Embassy’s intervention in repatriation of the stranded labourers. On Thursday, the embassy informed Panda, […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: What is it that makes BJP stronger in western Odisha compared to the state’s coastal belt? Right from the beginning the party has been winning more seats in the western region while it has found it difficult to penetrate the coast where currently the Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD) dominates. […]

New Delhi: BJP national vice president Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda on Sunday recalled how former finance minister Arun Jaitley took him under his guidance when he was a rookie BJD MP in 1998, illustrating that the departed leader was not constrained by the political divide. Paying tributes to the BJP stalwart, Panda said Jaitley, who passed […]

Bhubaneswar: Leaders cutting across party lines and other dignitaries from different walks of life attended a prayer meeting organized in memory of BJP stalwart and former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Bhubaneswar today. Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Odisha Assembly Speaker SN Patro, BJP National Vice-president Baijayant Panda and others paid rich […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has started the process of holding organisational elections in Odisha unit with a day-long workshop of party leaders on Thursday. Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Pratap Sarangi, BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda and several senior leaders including MPs and MLAs attended the workshop. The party’s state functionaries, district presidents, Zilla […]

Bhubaneswar: Scrapping of Article 370 should have been done 72 years ago because integration of Jammu and Kashmir was similar to that of other princely states’ integration with Union of India, said BJP National VP, Baijayant Jay Panda on Saturday. Addressing a seminar – ‘One Nation One Constitution’ – in Bhubaneswar today, Panda said the […]

Bargarh: The erstwhile Congress bastion Bijepur has become a battleground of the resurgent BJP while the BJD is determined to win the Assembly seat for the third time in 20 months. Still, the grand old party is also leaving no stone unturned to regain its lost ground. Of all, the Bijepur fight seems to be […]

Bhubaneswar: BJP National Vice-President Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda has sought the intervention of Ambassador of India in Kuwait to bring back the body of an Odia youth identified as Harsh Samal. As per reports, Samal, a resident of Ganjam district in Odisha, had been working in Kuwait since 2014. However, a few days ago, he reportedly […]

Berhampur: Union Minister Babul Supriyo and BJP national vice president, Baijayant Panda today attended a mega rally in Berhampur, Odisha as part of the saffron party’s ‘Jan Jagran’ (mass awareness) programme to build support for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) across the country. Thousands of BJP supporters and party workers from 22 blocks as well […]

Bhubaneswar: It’s going to be a litmus test for the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadami Party (AAP) as it is likely to face a tough challenge in upcoming 2020 Delhi Assembly elections to be held on February 8. Many believe that there will be a triangular battle between the AAP, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and […]