Tag: Mla

Bengaluru: JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy today accused the BJP(Bharatiya Janata Party) of offering Rs 100 crore each to his party MLAs to join them. Speaking to reporters here after his election as leader of the JD(S) Legislature Party, he alleged that BJP was making attempts to lure his party MLAs with monetary offers. Addressing […]

  Koraput: Congress MLA from Koraput Krushna Chandra Sagaria and his family members formally embraced Buddhism today at a special function at Burja village under Laxmipur block of the district. The ceremony was attended by hundreds of devotees from Koraput and Buddhist monks from Chhattisgarh, Raipur and Nagpur. Apart from Sagaria’s family, 100 more families […]

Bhubaneswar:  Leader of Opposition Narasingha  Mishra today lashed out at the Odisha government in the Assembly over constitution of Lokayukta and Lokpal. Mishra alleged that the state government lied to the Supreme Court about a notification on Lokayukta published on January 16, 2015. “If a notification has been issued on January 16, 2015 to implement […]

Berhampur: BJD MLA Srikant Sahu from Polsara constituency landed in trouble after a petition was filed in the Orissa High Court alleging that he had furnished false information in his affidavit during 2014 elections. Petitioner Rohit Pradhan, a general voter of Polsara alleged that the legislator had provided false information related to his educational qualification […]

Bhubaneswar: Former legislator of Satyabadi Rama Ranjan Baliarsingh today resigned from primary membership of BJD and alleged that party supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has become a puppet in the hands of a Tamil IAS officer. Baliarsingh, who was an independent MLA from Satyabadi from 2004 to 2009, said, “Earlier the CM was working […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister and BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan, who has been the poster boy of the saffron party in the State, today revealed that he will contest the ensuing 2019 general elections from Odisha. Talking to media persons on the sidelines of the Odisha Literary Festival in Bhubaneswar, Pradhan said, “Definitely I will contest from […]

Bhubaneswar: BJD MLA Prabhat Biswal, who is currently behind bars in connection with Seashore chit fund scam, was shifted to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack today. He has also applied for bail in Khurda District and Sessions Court here today. He was shifted to Cuttack following the advice of a four-member team of […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court today granted anticipatory bail to Biramitrapur MLA George Tirkey’s wife Namita Tirkey, whose name appeared in an FIR filed by a 28-year-old woman alleging that she was raped by the MLA’s son. The women’s police station in Rourkela earlier this month had booked the MLA’s son Rakesh Tirkey (31) on […]

Bhubaneswar: With legislators cutting across the political parties demanding higher pay and additional funds under LAD, the Odisha Cabinet today increased salaries and pensions of MLAs, ministers, chief minister, leader of opposition, speaker, deputy speaker, government chief whip and deputy government chief whip. The sub-panel of the amenities committee today decided to increase the monthly […]

Bhubaneswar: Congress legislator from Kotpad Chandrasekhar Majhi today got into a controversy after a tiff with security personnel at the entry gate of State Secretariat. According to sources, the MLA forcibly tried to enter the State Secretariat through Gate No. 1 on a bike flouting the security norms laid down for entry into the premises. […]

Bhawanipatna: Alleging humiliation and negligence, former Congress MLA from Bhawanipatna, Dushmant Naik today said he would quit the party. In an interview to OTV, Naik said his decision to quit the party is due to his dissatisfaction over party affairs and deception by some leaders of the party. “I had a key role in building […]

Bhubaneswar:  If trouble followed BJD MLA Brajakishore Pradhan to his house in Talcher recently when a woman claiming to be his wife landed at the legislator’s house demanding to stay with him, it dogged him to Bhubaneswar when the woman entered his government quarters today and ransacked it. According to sources, the woman reportedly ransacked […]

Bhubaneswar: As the Modi wave is all set to descend on Odisha with the streets of the capital city dressed up in saffron, the BJD seems to have maintained an uneasy calm. Though the party plans to celebrate the death anniversary of Biju Patnaik on April 17, it seems to have started making efforts to […]

Bhubaneswar: Holding BJD legislator from Bhadrak Jugal Kishore Patnaik and his son responsible for the ongoing unrest in the town and adjacent areas, BJP’s Odisha unit today questioned how a rally coordinated by Jugal Kishore’s son was allowed in the town at a time when the peace committee meeting was on. Spokesperson of BJP Golak […]

Bhubaneswar: Rubbishing BJP leader and Union Minister Jual Oram’s statement on some BJD MPs and legislators showing interest to join BJP, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said the remark can be tagged as ‘wishful thinking.’ Patnaik was replying to a query by newsmen after meeting the panchayat raj representatives of Puri district. ”I can only […]