Tag: Elections 2019

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases from April 11 to May 19 and the votes will be counted on May 23, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora announced on Sunday. Calling the Indian parliamentary battle the “largest festival of democracy”, he said that 91 constituencies (spread across 20 states) will […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha Surendra Kumar today informed that the State will go to simultaneous polls in four phases starting April 11, 2019. The next three phases of elections will be conducted on April 18, 23 and 29. Addressing a presser in Bhubaneswar today, the CEO said that elections will be conducted […]

Bhubaneswar: Major political parties in Odisha here on Sunday welcomed the announcement of poll dates for the general and assembly elections in the state. Odisha will witness Lok Sabha and Assembly elections simultaneously in four phases — April 11, 18, 23 and 29. “I welcome EC’s announcement for elections to the Odisha Assembly and the […]

New Delhi: Over 1.5 crore electors in 18-19 year age group will be eligible to vote for the first time in the seven-phased Lok Sabha election beginning April 11 with Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling upon them to vote in record numbers. These voters in the age group of 18-19 years constitute 1.66 per cent of […]

Mumbai: Actor Rajkummar Rao says people can change the shape of the future by choosing the right people by voting. “Voting gives us the power to choose who is going to run the country. There is no point complaining because it is us who have chosen them,” Rajkummar said in a video which he posted on […]

New Delhi: The Election Commission will “closely monitor” social media platforms for any objectionable content and advertisements, which will have to be pre-certified by the poll panel, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora said, here on Sunday. Political advertisements posted on the social media by candidates or parties would be included in the election expenditure, he […]

Bhubaneswar: Former Khurda MLA and BJP leader Jyotirindra Nath Mitra today ‘rejoined’ the BJD at Naveen Niwas in presence of party supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The two-time MLA, popularly known as Jitu Mitra, had quit the BJD in 2014 after being denied a party ticket. He then switched over to the BJP […]

Bhubaneswar: With Election Commission declaring the big dates Sunday, the battle for ballots in Odisha in 2019 seems to be one of the lengthiest poll schedules in recent history. Though for Election Commission staggered polls means ensuring provisioning of adequate central security forces to guarantee a free and fair poll, for political parties it is […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the announcement of poll dates; the BJP and the BJD have started playing mind games. While the BJP moved the Election Commission complaining about how BJD has violated the Model Code of Conduct that came into force with the announcement of election dates, BJD hit back by levelling a more grave […]

Bhubaneswar: BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s announcement that the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) would field 33% women candidates in Lok Sabha seats seems to have rendered all calculations and assessments useless. More disconcerting though is the fact that the party currently has only three women parliamentarians and all eyes are now on […]

Malkangiri: With the declaration of dates for the upcoming general polls in Odisha, incidents of Naxal violence were reported from two separate places of the State today. The Maoists killed a relative of a road construction contractor at Kukurkunda village under Mathili police limits of Malkangiri district. The deceased Gupta Swain was working as supervisor […]

Bhubaneswar: Elections 2019 will be etched in capital letters in India’s electoral history as it has many innovative electoral reforms to its credit that could have far-reaching consequences on the electoral process of the world’s largest democracy. Significantly, when there has been a murmur on the shortcomings in the poll process with regard to the […]

Bhubaneswar: With the dates of 2019 general elections declared, will anti-incumbency play a decisive role in Odisha? Was this the reason that the incumbent BJD launched a dozen schemes ranging from KALIA, PEETHA, SHG sops to Ama Gaon, Ama Bikas only a year prior to elections? It seems the BJD took Aristophanes’ words way too […]

Bhubaneswar: Brushing aside all speculations and discussions, the ruling-BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today clarified that his party will contest the upcoming general elections on its own without any alliance. Responding to queries fielded by mediapersons, the chief minister said, “We will fight the elections on our own.” When questioned about the candidate […]

Bhubaneswar: The problem of plenty has started to haunt the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha, at least to some extent, with the party reflecting on giving a chance to new faces in the four segments going to the polls in the first phase on April 11. Odisha will witness Lok Sabha and Assembly […]