Tag: Odisha Congress

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Rift surfaces between Koraput Congress members

Koraput: The factional feud within the Koraput district Congress intensified with district committee president Meenakshi Bahinipati and Jeypore MLA Taraprasad Bahinipati choosing to stay away from a function organised to felicitate Pradeep Majhi, the newly-appointed working president of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC). According to sources, the Bahinipatis didn’t attend the function as Koraput MLA […]

  • Monday, 26 July 2021
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Bhakta Das disapproves Congress' one-man-one-post formula

Bhubaneswar: With resentment brewing within Odisha Congress over the one-man-one-post formula, party’s working committee president Bhakta Charan Das today disapproved the strategy and said all office bearers can contest elections. Speaking to OTV over party chief Niranjan Patnaik’s one-man-one-post formula, Das said “Any office bearer can contest elections and the probability of victory will be […]

  • Monday, 26 July 2021
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Odisha Congress effects grassroots makeover ahead of 2019 polls

New Delhi: After the makeover of top brass in Odisha Congress, the state unit of the party today effected a major change at the grassroots level by appointing 22 new district presidents ahead of the 2019 elections following approval from national party president Rahul Gandhi. Of 33 party organisation districts, chiefs of 11 districts retain […]

  • Monday, 26 July 2021
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Odisha Congress observes fast over communalism

Bhubaneswar: As part of the protest called by All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi to protect and promote communal harmony across the country in wake of caste violence during the April 02 Bharat Bandh, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) observed a day-long fast across the State today. Congress supporters across the State sat […]

  • Monday, 26 July 2021
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Odisha Congress has begun selecting candidates for 2019!

Bhubaneswar: While Congress president Rahul Gandhi appointed former Union Minister Jitendra Singh as All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Odisha, senior party leader and former Nabarangpur MP Pradeep Majhi today held a meeting with party workers in Malkangiri to select candidate for the upcoming 2019 general elections. As per reports, Majhi and over 200 […]

  • Saturday, 24 July 2021
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Charges of favouritism surface in Odisha Congress

Bhubaneswar: Resentment is brewing within Congress leaders in the State after exclusion of a few heavyweights from the new list of members of All India Congress Committee (AICC) and this is evident from the fact that a few from the party continue to remain vocal (since then) against their leaders in Odisha and New Delhi. […]

  • Saturday, 24 July 2021
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Infighting in Odisha Congress grows bitter

Bhubaneswar: The ongoing infighting in Congress is getting bitter with several MLAs of the party today meeting at the residence of Opposition Party Leader Narasingha Mishra and reportedly chalking out a strategy to oust the incumbent president of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Prasad Harichandan. Congress MLA from Sundergarh Jogesh Singh on Wednesday said he […]

  • Saturday, 24 July 2021
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Squabble in Congress intensifies over change of guard in OPCC

Bhubaneswar: A day after Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) disciplinary committee chairperson Sandhya Rani Mohapatra claimed that will no change of guard in the party’s State leadership till 2019, senior leader Sarat Rout today questioned her authority for making such statements. “Congress president Rahul Gandhi will take the decision on who will be the OPCC […]

  • Saturday, 24 July 2021
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BJD wins Bijepur bypoll by huge margin

Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) claimed the Bijepur Assembly constituency seat by defeating Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) by a huge margin. The BJD candidate Rita Sahu defeated her nearest rival Ashok Panigrahi of BJP by a margin of 41,933 votes as per figures after conclusion of all rounds of counting. BJD’s Rita Sahu […]

  • Saturday, 24 July 2021
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Lulu was neglected by Congress: Tara

Bhubaneswar: While condolences are pouring in from all quarters on the sad and untimely demise of Congress leader Lalatendu (Lulu) Bidyadhar Mohapatra, his party colleague the opposition chief whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati today came out in the open about the neglect and disrespect meted out to the departed leader by his own party. According to […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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Condolences pour in for Lulu Mohapatra

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The news of death of the senior Congress leader Lalatendu (Lulu) Bidyadhar Mohapatra came as a great shock to leaders across Odisha. Not only the Congress workers and followers of Lulu, but also the leaders cutting across party line expressed profound grief over the untimely death of the veteran leader, who breathed his […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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District Congress presidents back Harichandan

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The suspense surrounding the meeting of the 23 District Congress Committee (DCC) presidents with their national vice-president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi ended as all the district chiefs emerging out of the meeting voiced their unequivocal and unstinting support for the PCC president Prasad Harichandan. The rumour, which was flying thick and fast […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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Cong urges Prez to stop Chhattisgarh’s Mahanadi projects

New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Congress legislature party met the President, Pranab Mukherjee today and urged him to ask the central government to stop all ongoing contentious projects on the upper catchment areas of Mahanadi River till the dispute between Chhattisgarh and Odisha is resolved. Apprising the President that the Chhattisgarh government is illegally building […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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Niranjan backs Biswal, dubs some state Congress leaders ‘rats’

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 […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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Cong to intensify stir on NFSA, MGNREGA irregularities from Apr 15

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Congress has decided to intensify its agitation on gross irregularities in the Centrally sponsored National Food Security Act (NFSA) and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) schemes across the state from April 15 next.

  • Monday, 19 July 2021
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