Tag: Niranjan Patnaik

Bhubaneswar: The Congress legislature party strongly recommended the name of Niranjan Patnaik as the next PCC president of Odisha on Sunday during the second day of AICC observers’ assessment of scenario in State Congress. Hours before the legislators-observers talks, party MLAs met together at the residence of Leader of Opposition Narasingh Mishra in presence of […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid voracious demands for the ouster OPCC president Prasad Harichandan, a team of AICC observers’ has arrived in Odisha to take stock of the party situation. Under such circumstances, several faction groups led by former OPCC chief Niranjan Patnaik and senior leader Bhakta Das have started hectic parleys to garner support to throw weight […]

Bhubaneswar: The demand for change in guard in the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) has intensified with three heavyweight Congress leaders supporting Niranjan Patnaik who is in a race with Bhakta Charan Das as the new PCC chief. As per sources, All India Congress Committee (AICC) Vice President Rahul Gandhi has also been informed about […]

Bhubaneswar: A closed-door meeting of senior Congress leaders was held at the official residence of Leader of Opposition (LoP) Narasingha Mishra here on Sunday. Veteran Congress leader Niranjan Patnaik, Opposition Chief Whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati, legislators Naba Kishore Das, Anshuman Mohanty, Prafulla Majhi and Devendra Sharma were among the few who attended the meeting. Jharsuguda […]

Bhubaneswar: While both the BJD and the Opposition BJP have locked horns and are bracing up for the upcoming 2019 general elections, the Congress has so far not done nothing significant after the state rural civic polls, earlier last month, spiking discontentment among party leaders. Congress leader and Opposition Chief Whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati has […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Congress leaders have squarely blamed the state party chief and the central leaders for the disastrous performance of the party in the ongoing three-tier Panchayat polls in the state. “We are solely responsible for the dismal show of Congress is due to our sheer inability, indiscipline and lack of willingness to reach […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior Congress leader former president of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Niranjan Patnaik today attributed lack of coordination and discipline among the party leaders to the miserable show of Congress in the ongoing three-tier Panchayat polls in Odisha. “We should not blame anyone for the dismal show of Congress. We are solely responsible […]

Bhubaneswar: In a show of strength, Congress party leaders including former Home Minister Shivraj Patil today held a demonstration in front of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) office in Bhubaneswar protesting against demonetisation and alleged that the poor and middle class sections of the society are worst-hit even after 70 days of the note […]

Bhubaneswar: After the Congress legislators met party President Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi recently setting off a rumour regarding removal of Prasad Harichandan as the PCC chief, a meeting of Niranjan Patnaik and some senior Congress leaders with Opposition leader Narasingha Mishra at the latter’s residence here today set tongues wagging […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after former Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) chief Niranjan Patnaik stirred up a hornet’s nest saying there are rats in the party, senior Congress leader Suresh Kumar Routray dismissed the statement of Patnaik and said there are no rats in the party and all partymen are gentlemen. “If anybody wants to see […]

Bhubaneswar: Former chief minister and senior Congress leader Hemananda Biswal, who created a flutter in his party circle four days ago after admitting dissidence in the Congress in a meeting with party vice president Rahul Gandhi in Delhi, today received support from his colleague Niranjan Patnaik, the former Odisha Congress chief who is known for […]

The Odisha Congress, which is mired in intra-party squabbles, received another jolt today following the announcement of senior party leader Lalatendu BIdyadhar Mohapatra of launching his new outfit “Lulu Sena”

Former OPCC chief and senior Congress leader Niranjan Patnaik on Tuesday suggested the PCC Coordination Committee to hold two functions of the party’s state unit at one place on February 2 to avoid confusion

Bhubaneswar: Former Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik’s rebellious statement in the recent past expressing unwillingness to contest this year’s General Elections under the leadership of incumbent party chief Jayadev Jena has cost him his candidature, most likely. Although the grand old party came out with a list of candidates for two Lok […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday lashed out at the BJP government at the Centre accusing the saffron party of turning blind to the paddy MSP (minimum support price) demand of the farmers of the State. Addressing a farmers’ convention (Krushak Adhikar Samabesh) today at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi, Patnaik said […]