CM Naveen was seen getting irritated over a BJD badge being pinned onto his shirt and a party scarf being tied around his neck at the Jan Sampark Padayatra meeting dais in the Ekamra Assembly constituency.
The scene soon took an ugly turn as both sides engaged in a scuffle. The situation came to such a pass that police had to intervene to bring the situation under control.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said "Earlier incidents of treatment under candlelight and other means used to be reported from rural pockets of the state. But now similar scenes are witnessed at the state’s major health institution.
“The Opposition parties are not happy with Odisha’s development journey. Now misleading people with false information has become their sole job. It happens whenever elections come. But people always have rejected them for this,” said Patnaik.
“I would like to request the CM to bring every detail related to Shraddha to the fore or step down from the post,” said BJP MP Basant Panda.
Raising the issue of the missing key of Srimandir Ratna Bhandar, Jashipur MLA Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia sought to know why the government is buying time to make the commission report public.
These agitations are believed to be proved as bones in the neck of the BJD government in the coming 2024 general elections.
Reacting to what the Union Minister said while replying to a question during a literary festival in Bhubaneswar on Saturday, the BJD on Sunday said there is none in the BJP to take on Naveen Patnaik.
Launching a scathing attack on the BJD govt in Odisha, BJP National Vice President Baijayant Panda on Saturday said media houses in the state are becoming victims of the targeted wrath of the State government.
Taking a swipe at the BJD-led government, Panda said, “Earlier, some media houses were the target of the government. And now, some others are being targeted."
With an intention to keep its women vote bank intact, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha has played a women card by making Pramila Mallik the first woman speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
A team of EOW officials along with a cyber team reached the branch of Odisha Gramya Bank at Jayadev Vihar Thursday morning. Besides going through several documents, they also grilled the branch manager.
Soumya’s expulsion from the BJD has left many questions unanswered. Was he expelled for the alleged loan scam or for some other reason?
The six-time MLA today resigned from Naveen Patnaik's cabinet and filed her nomination for the Odisha Legislative Assembly’s Speaker post.
Intensifying their agitation, the primary teachers under the banner of the Primary School Teachers’ Association on Wednesday decided to go on leave en masse.
Hitting out at the conch party, Odisha BJP President Manmohan Samal said that BJD leaders are now feeling suffocated within the party.
Expressing doubts over authenticity of the removal order, Patnaik said, “The order of my removal from the post of vice-president carries the signature of Naveen Patnaik. But I suspect whether it is the CM’s real or fake signature.”
“Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, Vice-President, BJD is hereby removed from the post of vice-president with immediate effect,” the BJD’s order read. However, the BJD has not mentioned the reason for removing Soumya Ranjan Patnaik from the post of vice-president.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s Bhubaneswar MP Aparajita Sarangi took to her X handle and described the incident as very unfortunate and ridiculous.
At a time when the Chief Ministers of non-BJP states like Bihar, Jharkhand and Himachal Pradesh took part in the banquet, Naveen Patnaik despite being invited was conspicuous by his absence.