Tag: Odisha Assembly Election

Just days after actor, Arindam Roy, who is the brother-in-law of BJD's organizational secretary, Pranab Prakash Das, abandoned the party and joined the BJP, six-time MP Bhartruhari Mahtab quit the party. Mahtab, one of the BJD's founding members, spewed venom while announcing his resignation on Friday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Dilip Mallick trained his gun at the Congress over its statement on electoral bonds. 

During a merger ceremony at the Sankha Bawan, Puri district unit president Dibakar Patra said that former MLA Sanjay Dasburma will surely come out victorious in the Satyabadi Assembly segment and incumbent Satyabadi MLA Umakant Samantaray will win in Brahmagiri. 

The exodus situation wasn’t any good even before the announcement by Odisha BJP chief Manmohan Samal on Friday. Starting from Paradip to Bhubaneswar, the BJD is reportedly standing divided with new ticket aspirants becoming rebellious against the incumbent MLAs. 

If the power brokers had their way, this perhaps would have been the first instance in independent India when a ruling party would have gone into an election in alliance, formed weeks before the election...

It was a homecoming for Nayak as she distanced herself from the party after the 2009 elections when she contested from the Bhubaneswar Parliamentary seat on a BJP ticket and subsequently crossed over to the BJD. 

Senior Congress leader and Jatani MLA, Suresh Routray announced his retirement from electoral politics on Friday. 

The Aditya Birla Group topped the list of donors with a Rs 260 crore donation to the ruling party in Odisha through its associate companies.  

Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab resigned from the BJD's primary membership on Friday. 

BJP State President Manmohan Samal on Friday said that the party will contest alone in both the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. 

Following speculations that Patasani may be named as BJD candidate from Chilika, Raghu Sahu with his hundreds of supporters arrived at Sankha Bhawan in Bhubaneswar on Friday claiming his candidature.

Speaking at the Hyderabad Dialogues organised by The New Indian Express, he also claimed BJP’s target of 400 seats is psychological warfare and the party on its own is highly unlikely to win 370 seats.

It is said that the BJD is gripped by infighting in Aska, Khallikote, Digapahandi, Chhatrapur, and Kabisuryanagar Assembly segments. In Gopalpur, present BJP leader Pradeep Panigrahi has posed a challenge to the ruling party.    

The saffron party has finalised candidates for nearly 100 Assembly seats and 16 Lok Sabha seats.  However, the saffron party is weighing political equations for the Lok Sabha seats of Mayurbhanj, Jajpur, Bhadrak and Kendrapara, sources said.

Suraj also highlighted the achievements of the BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's term. He said that there has been a massive revolution in the telecom sector in the country.