Tag: BJP

Bhubaneswar: Supporters of BJP leader Amiya Dash last night staged dharna in front of the party’s State headquarters here after his name was not mentioned in the list of candidates announced for 99 Assembly constituencies. Resentment brewed among the supporters after the party named Babu Singh, who left BJD and joined BJP recently, as party […]

Bhubaneswar: The political fight on the turf of Sundargarh looks more intense in 2019 as ruling BJD and Congress have played a new ‘Check’ and ‘Mate’ political game-plan to checkmate Union Tribal Affairs Minister and BJP bigwig Jual Oram, who is seeking re-election from Sundargarh in 2019. Though the polls are on April 18, all […]

Bhubaneswar: Holi holds a special significance for politicians. But this year’s Holi proved a perfect ambience for politicians of all hues in State to give a kick start to the poll campaign of their respective parties ahead of the crucial 2019 elections. Odisha Congress workers were more enthusiastic this year. It seems the pep-up has […]

New Delhi: BJP chief Amit Shah on Saturday said that Congress President Rahul Gandhi should apologise for his chief advisor Sam Pitroda’s statement on the February 14 Pulwama attack. “I demand from the Congress President that he must apologise to the families of the slain troopers,” Shah told the media here. Shah’s statement came in […]

Bhubaneswar: In its tryst with experimentation politics, the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has now made Bijepur a political laboratory. The experiment started since 2018 by-election reached the zenith when Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik decided to make a poll debut from the assembly constituency in order to make a winning formula for BJD in Western […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as dynasty is an antithesis to democracy, tentacles of dynasty seem taking strong root in State politics. The politics of dynasty is now ruling supreme in Odisha elections 2019, and State Congress so far appears to hold the  banner of ‘dynastic politics’ in the State. This sounds ironical when State Congress in a […]

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday came out with its fifth list of 48 candidates, spanning the six states of Goa, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka. The list features three Union Ministers – Narendra Singh Tomar, Jayant Sinha and Shripad Yesso Naik and former minister Faggan Singh Kulaste. Tomar […]

Bhubaneswar: Accusing BJP of violating model code of conduct, a delegation of the BJD today lodged a complaint before the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Surendra Kumar here. The BJD alleged that senior leader and BJP Vice-president Baijayant Panda is engaging video-campaigning vehicle in Kendrapara without the required permission from the Chief Electoral Officer. Hoardings […]

Gandhinagar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its second list of Lok Sabha candidates from Gujarat, containing 15 candidates – all sitting MPs, In the first list, announced on Thursday, party President Amit Shah’s candidature was announced for the Gandhinagar seat, replacing veteran leader L.K. Advani, who had held the seat since 1998. […]

Nayagarh: Virtually setting an aggressive tone for BJD’s line of campaigning in the 2019 polls, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today claimed that BJD will make a clean sweep of all 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha in 2019 elections. Patnaik also asserted that BJD will play a key role in next government formation at Centre. […]

Bhubaneswar: Had Winston Churchill been alive this date, he would have been compelled to have a retake of his famous quote “Some men change party for the sake of their principles”. The quote in 2019 and in the context of current fluid political scenario in Odisha could be read as “Many women and men change […]

Salepur: After being nominated as BJP candidate from Salepur Assembly constituency, senior leader Prakash Behera today launched his poll campaign along with the party’s national vice president and Kendrapara Lok Sabha candidate Baijayant Panda. Behera took out a big rally along with Panda and party workers in the Salepur constituency after offering prayers at the […]

New Delhi: The BJP, which has already axed five of its sitting MPs in Chhattisgarh, on Sunday fielded new faces in five more constituencies, denying ticket to sitting MPs including six time Raipur MP Ramesh Bais and Abhishek Singh, son of former Chief Minister Raman Singh. According to the list, cleared by BJP Central Election […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when poll fever is at its zenith, the State unit of BJP might have pulled ahead of its rivals in candidate announcement, but delay in allotment of tickets in key Lok Sabha constituencies like Cuttack and Kandhamal is creating lot of speculations. While the saffron party has named candidates for 15 […]

It has been the subject of street corner gossip for as long as one can remember. But on Sunday, BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik lent authenticity to what had so far remained only in the realm of speculation. Normally, it is extremely difficult to pin Naveen down to the numbers game, who restricts […]