Tag: BJP

Nayagarh: BJP leader Irani Ray on Monday alleged that she was attacked by some of the BJD workers while she had visited a temple at Bhata Sahi to attend a religious programme there on Sunday evening. Her car driver and one of her associates were also attacked by the BJD members, she alleged. Ray said […]

Nandigram: TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, who is contesting the assembly elections from Nandigram, was greeted with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans by BJP supporters on Tuesday at Reyapara here, where she had been camping for the past two days. The chief minister, moments before she was about to leave for her programme at Bhangabera in the […]

Puri: On the penultimate day of filing nominations for the Pipili by-election, both Biju Janata Dal and Congress candidates on Tuesday filed their respective papers at the Sub-Collector’s office in Puri. BJD’s Rudra Pratap Maharathy and Congress candidate Ajit Mangaraj left Pipili for Puri in separate road shows and filed their papers with the Sub-Collector. […]

Puri: The State unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday met the Odisha Chief Election Commissioner complaining about alleged promotion of the BJD candidate in Pipili by-election by a doctor posted at Pipili. As per reports, the doctor in question, Abinash Rath who has been employed at the Pipili Community Health Center (CHC) allegedly […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid the allegations leveled by the State BJP of the Odisha government hijacking Central schemes, the Centre has now asked the State government to refrain from co-branding PMAY-G houses with the logo of the Biju Pucca Ghar Yojana (BPGY), which would result in the misinterpretation of the scheme by the beneficiaries. In a letter […]

Bhubaneswar: Opposition parties in Odisha-BJP and Congress on Wednesday stalled the Odisha Assembly demanding immediate rollback of power tariff hike that has ‘pinched the pocket of common men’ during the time of Covid-19 pandemic. During Question hour, Congress MLAs created heavy ruckus over the issue in the House forcing the Speaker to adjourn the House […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee wrote to several opposition leaders saying that the BJP wants to establish a one-party authoritarian rule in India and time has come for a united and effective struggle against its attack on democracy and Constitution. The three-page personal letter was sent by Banerjee to […]

Bhubaneswar: The new in-charge (Prabhari) of Odisha BJP, Daggubati Purandeswari on Wednesday arrived in the State Capital on a three-day Odisha visit to discuss party’s organisational affairs. This is her maiden visit to the State after being appointed as the in-charge of Odisha. She is scheduled to meet the office bearers, party MPs, MLAs and […]

Bhubaneswar: The Inspector-in-charge of Nayagarh Sadar Police station Rinarani Sahu has been placed under suspension, Odisha Police sources said on Thursday. Apart from the Inspector In-Charge (IIC) of Sadar Police Station, Nayagarh SDPO Niranjan Padhi has been transferred and posted as DSP to Kandhamal. Both the officials were under scanner over the murder case of […]

Bhubaneswar/Jajpur: At a time when Odisha politics is already boiling with the murder case of five-year-old Nayagarh girl, Pari, shocking story of another missing minor girl named ‘Pihu’ from Jajpur district grabbed headlines on Thursday. As per reports, two-year-old Subhalaxmi Nayak, aka Pihu from Madhusudanpur village under Binjharpur Police Station in Jajpur has been missing […]

Bhubaneswar: Breaking into the formidable bastion of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) will be a major challenge for senior BJP leader Daggubati Purandeswari who has been given charge of the party’s affairs in Odisha. The new in-charge (Prabhari) of the party’s Odisha unit, Purandeswari is now on a visit to the State and seems […]

Bhubaneswar: The newly appointed Odisha BJP in-charge Daggubati Purandeswari, who is on a three-day visit to the State, slammed the BJD-led State government over the deteriorating law and order situation while targeting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over a series of issues including non-implementation of Ayushman Bharat scheme, alleged irregularities in Kalia Scheme and the recent […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha unit of BJP has also decided to organise farmers’ awareness initiatives in the State in line with the party’s nationwide trail of conferences to promote the farm laws against which the peasants have been protesting for the eighteenth straight day. Informing about the decision, president of Odisha BJP Krushak Morcha, Pradeep Purohit […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior leaders of the Opposition BJP and the Congress came together on Monday to condemn the arrest of two security personnel and an equal number of OTV employees by the State Crime Branch in connection with the case of the alleged gang rape of a minor girl in Bhubaneswar. Coming down heavily on the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Opposition parties in Odisha– BJP and Congress– have staged demonstration in front of the office of State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) on Monday over abduction and killing of five-year-old Nayagarh girl ‘Pari’ and rise in the cases of missing children. The members of BJP Mahila Morcha led by President Smruti […]