Tag: BJP

Patna: The Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Sunday decided not be a part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance outside the Bihar. At its national executive meeting held at the official residence of JD-U chief Nitish Kumar here, the party also decided to go it alone in the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, […]

Tirupati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that some people were yet to get over the impact of the Lok Sabha poll results. Addressing a meeting of BJP workers at Renigunta Airport near this temple town, he said the election chapter was over for the BJP and it had now started focussing on serving […]

Bhubaneswar: Blaming intra-party bickering for their defeat during the general elections of 2019, many BJP leaders, who were fielded as party candidates expressed their displeasure during the six-hour-long brainstorming session at the party headquarters in Bhubaneswar today. Former MLA of Brajarajnagar Radharani Panda, who lost the recently concluded Assembly poll by 9,000 votes from her […]

Cooch Behar (West Bengal): A day after escalation of violence in West Bengal centering on a BJP-Trinamool Congress clash that killed at least five people, two more BJP workers were allegedly shot at by supporters of the state’s ruling party in North Bengal’s Cooch Behar district, local BJP leaders said. The district Trinamool leadership however […]

Gurugram: After a thumping victory in last month’s Lok Sabha elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah is back again in his poll avatar this time for the upcoming Haryana Assembly polls due end of the year. “Shah has given ‘Mission-75’ to the Haryana BJP leadership for upcoming Assembly elections,” Captain Abhimanyu, the Finance Minister of […]

Kolkata: Alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was spreading rumours about violence in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the saffron party of plotting a conspiracy to topple her government. “There is no point sending me behind bars. If the BJP thinks it can stop me from opposing them by shutting […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Despite winning just 23 assembly seats in Odisha the BJP remains determined to pursue its Mission 120 Plus in the state which is crucial to its growth plans in eastern India. Senior party leaders have made it clear that though they are disappointed with the results of assembly elections there is […]

Bhubaneswar: With constitutional grey areas galore in the norms governing the election to the office of Deputy Speaker in the Lok Sabha, the curiosity quotient in Odisha attained its zenith when CM Naveen met PM Modi in New Delhi in the backdrop of hard speculation over the post being offered to veteran BJD leader Bhartruhari […]

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday constituted the parliamentary party executive committee appointing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh as the deputy leader in the Lok Sabha. The party has appointed Union Minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot as leader and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal as his deputy […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Chief minister, Naveen Patnaik’s request to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi at their recent meeting in New Delhi that states hit by major calamities be declared special focus states and granted benefits of special category status for a specific period has evoked varied reactions. While state BJP has described it as a […]

Bhubaneswar/Rourkela: Sundergarh MP Jual Oram on Wednesday confessed that he was upset after failing to get a Cabinet berth in the Narendra Modi government 2.0. It is for the first time that Oram expressed his feelings publicly. While addressing a felicitation programme held at Rourkela yesterday, the five-term MP said, “I am also a human […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid protests from the Opposition, the ruling-BJD is now eyeing to get Parliament’s nod for the formation of Legislative Council or Vidhan Parishad in Odisha. A resolution to set up Vidhan Parishad was passed in the Odisha Assembly in September last year in absence of opposition party members including from the BJP and Congress. […]

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will continue as BJP President till the year-end, at least, as the party said the issue about the next BJP chief will be considered only after completion of the fresh enrollment drive launched on Thursday. Accordingly, Shah will oversee the next round of Assembly elections slated in Maharashtra, […]

Kanchrapara (WB): Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday insisted that those living in West Bengal will have to learn to speak in Bengali as she accused the BJP of targeting Bengalis and minorities to replicate the “Gujarat model” to capture power in the state. She said she would never allow the BJP to turn West Bengal […]

Bhubaneswar: To push its demand for special category status for Odisha, the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is planning to join hands with the YSR Congress and the JD(U) in Parliament and raise their voice unitedly. The chief ministers of Odisha, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh — Naveen Patnaik of BJD, Nitish Kumar of JD(U) and […]