Tag: BJP

Bhubaneswar: Manifestoes are an integral part of elections in India. They are supposed to mirror the thinking of the political parties in the fray and their understanding of the collective aspirations of the people they seek to represent. These charter of promises are supposed to be sacrosanct, but in our country election manifestoes have become […]

Bhubaneswar: The Elections 2019 juggernaut has started rolling. And when political activities have just started to take on a feverish pitch in the State, it’s imperative to look at which political party has scored a ‘hell of an opening’ in the first few days. For the ruling BJD, the opening days are not any happy […]

Bhubaneswar: Slamming the Odisha government for neglecting the demands of the investors duped by several chit fund companies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today promised to identify and return money to investors within a year if the party is voted to power in the upcoming elections. Addressing a presser, senior BJP leader Biswa Bhusan Harichandan […]

Bhubaneswar: The decision of the Railways Ministry to shift the office of Chief Railway Electrification from Bhubaneswar to Bengaluru has now been opposed by several political parties including Congress and BJD in Odisha. Slamming the Centre for its decision, Odisha Congress today alleged that the move will adversely affect the financial condition of the State. […]

Bengaluru: With pressure building on Congress President Rahul Gandhi to contest from a southern seat, tentatively in Karnataka, other than his traditional stronghold Amethi, BJP on Saturday mocked the Gandhi scion for fearing a loss from the family borough in Uttar Pradesh. “If Rahul contests from anywhere in the south, it will indicate the fall […]

Bhubneswar: Exodus from the ruling-BJD continues as Pritinanda Routray, daughter of senior BJP leader Damodar Rout, resigned from the party’s primary membership today. In her resignation letter sent to Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik, Pritinanda said due to personal reasons she has quit the party. Meanwhile, the former corporator of the Bhubaneswar Municipal […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Congress today asked both the BJD and the BJP to prove that the data presented by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) chief, Rahul Gandhi during a public rally in Bargarh wrong. Odisha Congress leader Panchanan Kanungo said that both BJD and BJP have shown political immaturity by alleging that the data […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday said the much publicised Ayushman Bharat scheme, also known as Modicare, was a “jumla” (hoax) as it excludes outpatient treatment, which constitutes 87 per cent of patients. “The claim that ‘Modicare’ has provided each household insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh is a huge fraud. The cheapest equivalent private […]

Bhubaneswar: BJD has played its ace card well. The party has urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to contest from Western Odisha, and a ‘serious’ looking CM readily said he is considering the proposal ‘very seriously’. BJD made this announcement a grandstanding event today and the Naveen Niwas was chock-a-block with party workers. BJD supremo and […]

New Delhi: Former Congress leader and Salepur MLA Prakash Behera today joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, party’s national vice-president Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda and other senior leaders at the party headquarters in New Delhi. Earlier, Behera had resigned from the primary membership of Congress yesterday. In his resignation […]

Bhubaneswar: With the general elections just around the corner, as state politics continues to witness twists and turns every minute, veteran leader Bijoy Mohapatra however is yet to open his cards. Bijoy, who quit BJP on November 30 last year along with senior leader Dilip Ray, has not clarified on whether he would join any […]

Sundergarh: Amid her cold war with party’s Jogesh Singh over Sundergarh Assembly constituency ticket for the upcoming elections, BJD leader Kusum Tete on Sunday resigned as the chairman of Sundergarh Special Development Council (SDC). In her resignation letter to BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Tete mentioned that her decision to quit from the […]

Panaji: The swearing-in of a new BJP-led government in Goa has been delayed as potential allies appear to have, for now, baulked at its attempts to nominate Assembly Speaker Pramod Sawant for the Chief Minister’s post. After stating earlier on Monday that the new Chief Minister would be sworn in soon after 3 p.m., state […]

Panaji: BJP’s Pramod Sawant will be the new chief minister of Goa, party sources said Monday. Two MLAs from the BJP alliance partners will be made deputy chief ministers as part of the compromise reached with allies, they said. The BJP managed to break the deadlock in Goa, offering key allies their pound of flesh, […]

Bhubaneswar: The rebellion over party ticket distribution in BJD scaled a ‘royal’ high. A royal challenge staring at the party as two of its prominent sitting MPs with royal lineage have raised a banner of revolt after being denied tickets. BJD had fielded 11 royals, including 3 in Lok Sabha, in 2014. While sitting BJD […]