Tag: Elections 2019

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BJD sweeps 22 SC & 25 ST seats in 2019 polls

Bhubaneswar: When consistency in all departments is the buzzword for a cricket team to emerge as the world champion, the same hard norms are equally indispensable for the political parties on a poll pitch. It’s the lack of this consistency in rival teams of BJD saw how the party under the captaincy of Naveen Patnaik […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Six Muslim MPs win from Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow: In 2014, Uttar Pradesh did not have a single Muslim MP from the state but the scenario has changed this time and the state is sending six Muslims to the Lok Sabha. The Muslim MPs who have been elected include three each from the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). The SP MPs […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Trump calls up Modi, to meet at G-20 summit

New Delhi: US President Donald Trump on Friday called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi to congratulate him on his election victory and the two leader agreed to meet at the upcoming G-20 summit in Japan. “President Trump congratulated the Prime Minister on the unprecedented electoral victory. The two leaders agreed to meet at the forthcoming […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
2019 election results in Odisha, split voting
Odisha voters go for split voting while electing MPs and MLAs

Bhubaneswar: The Lok Sabha and Odisha Assembly elections were held simultaneously, but in many constituencies people have voted in favour of one party in the Parliamentary poll and for another in the state election. Odisha has 21 Lok Sabha seats and 147 Assembly constituencies. The Biju Janata Dal won 12 Lok Sabha seats while the […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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33% women to enter Lok Sabha from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is sending 33 per cent women to the Lok Sabha after the just held general elections. Seven women have been elected from the 21 parliamentary seats in the state. While five women won from the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), two emerged victorious from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP winners are Aparajita […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Dynasty politics bites dust in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: It seems dynasty politics in Odisha was outrightly rejected by voters in the recently concluded general elections as they gave thumbs down to many duos of political families who were in the poll fray. While Congress leader Niranjan Patnaik faced defeat from Ghasipura and Bhandaripokhari assembly constituencies, his son Nabajyoti Patnaik lost from the […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Op-Ed: Electorate Reject Dynasty

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: The most heartening aspect of 2019 verdict has been the near complete rejection of dynastic politics by the electorate. Nothing proves this better than the defeat of Congress president, Rahul Gandhi from the family borough of Amethi. He had inherited the seat from his father and former Prime Minister, Rajeev Gandhi […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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BJD's 2019 game-plan to field more RS members may boomerang the party!

Bhubaneswar:  In a queer twist, the game-plan of CM Naveen Patnaik and BJD strategists to pit a record number of Rajya Sabha (RS) members in the 2019 polls seems proving counterproductive for the party. What bothers the party strategists is the united opposition now has the numbers to wrest a RS seat from BJD, courtesy […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
Politics not complicated if people kept priority: Naveen

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who won the state Assembly election for the fifth consecutive time, on Sunday said politics is not complicated when people and their welfare are kept in the forefront. “People ask me often what is the secret of the BJD’s continuous success and I always tell them these two points […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Knives Out, BJD Begins Post-Poll Analysis

Bhubaneswar: Despite the landslide victory of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha, the party lost several Lok Sabha and Assembly seats triggering a blame game within the regional party. So to review the party’s drubbing in the polls, BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik sought a report following which the party leaders from across the State […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Don't include me in new cabinet, Jaitley tells Modi

New Delhi: Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to include him in the new cabinet, citing his health issues. “During the last 18 months, I have had some serious health challenges. My doctors have enabled me to emerge out of most of them,” Jaitley said in a letter […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Op-Ed: Naveen Seeks Course Correction in Western Odisha

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Ruling Biju Janata Dal’s lacklustre Lok Sabha performance in western Odisha seems to have rattled chief minister, Naveen Patnaik. The clever politician that he is he has taken immediate corrective measures, one of these being the inclusion of as many as six leaders from the region in his new ministry. Among […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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EC says no ghost voters in Lok Sabha poll

New Delhi: The Election Commission on Saturday made it clear that there were no ghost voters during the recently held Lok Sabha polls as the provisional voter turnout data reported on the EC website is only the tentative number of voters. “The provisional voter turnout data reported on EC website is only the tentative number […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Naveen Resigning From Bijepur Is BJD's First Deceptive Game In 5th Term: Odisha BJP

Bhubaneswar: Following resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik from Bijepur Assembly seat on Sunday, Odisha BJP Vice President Samir Mohanty strongly criticised the decision of the CM while claiming that Patnaik has failed the people of Bijepur and West Odisha. Mohanty said, “Mission Western Odisha has failed. The people urged him to contest from there […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Congress forms six sub-committees to review poll debacle in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) has formed six teams to analyse and find out the reasons behind Congress’ poll debacle in the recently concluded 2019 election. After the first meeting of Odisha Congress’ fact-finding team held here on Saturday, party MLA Narasingha Mishra said that the post-mortem report of the party’s poll debacle will […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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