Tag: General Elections 2024

At Soro in Balasore, MLA Parsuram Dhada accompanied by his supporters celebrated Biju Babu’s birth anniversary sidelining his own party leader and a ticket hopeful, Shibani Shankar Ray. On the other hand, Ray and scores of party workers separately organised another programme. 

Taking a break from the speech, Modi observed that holding the paintings for so long would have been painful and even asked the girls to write their names and addresses on the flip side of the paintings. To their utter joy, the Prime Minister even announced on the dais that he would write letters to them.

Sukinda Assembly segment, a mineral-bearing area in Jajpur, is tagged as a fort of the ruling Biju Janata Dal(BJD). Sukinda was once represented by former Finance Minister Prafulla Ghadai and is now represented by his son Pritiranjan Gharai. The BJD has its hold on this seat for the last 25 years.

Modi further said that the '400 Paar Sankalp' is for farmers and to bring a change for the women in the country. The East and Odisha will have to play a crucial role in this Sankalp, he added.

With the 2024 General Elections round the corner, ticket aspirants are now queuing up at Naveen Niwas, the official residence of CM and BJD president Naveen Patnaik to lobby for party tickets. Fresh in the line is Mihir Mohanty who is vying for the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha seat.

On Monday, over 2,000 party workers and grassroots leaders drawn from 36 panchayats held a meeting at Kujang and launched a scathing attack on the legislator.

As the political parties have already started preparations for the upcoming big political battles, aspiring candidates in constituencies across Odisha aren’t lagging behind as well. 

A day before the launching of the long-awaited passenger train service by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Haridashpur-Paradeep railway line during his visit to Chandikhole in Jajpur, an expert team from the Commission for Railway Safety examined the rail track in Kendrapara. 

The disgruntled leaders vented their ire against the MLA and said that they would appeal to the Chief Minister not to give a BJD ticket to Sambit Routray this time.

The senior BSF official said that at present the naxal concentration is restricted to one or two districts. Most of the rebels have migrated to Andhra Pradesh or Chhattisgarh.

‘Modi Ka Parivar’ seems to emerge as the new poll plank of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), months ahead of the Parliamentary elections 2024.

Former minister and sitting MLA from Telkoi constituency Premananda Nayak and former Dhamnagar MLA and BJD’s rebel leader, Rajendra Das on Monday joined the BJP at a special programme held in Bhubaneswar.

In most Assembly segments, the organizational units of the ruling party are ridden with virulent factionalism and frontline leaders and workers are reportedly disillusioned with local leadership. As a result, the exodus of influential leaders from the party has started.

Starting from Paradeep to Bhubaneswar, the BJD reportedly stands divided with new ticket aspirants becoming rebellious against the incumbent MLAs. On the other hand, disgruntled BJD leaders are now making a beeline for the BJP.

Ahead of the elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha has initiated a drive to reach out to 1 crore people and to get their suggestions and feedback before preparing its poll plank (Sankalppatra). The campaign was launched by Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal at the party office in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.