Tag: Odisha Congress

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Odisha Congress leaders have showed mixed reactions to the All India Congress Committee's (AICC) decision on formation of a 24-member campaign committee with Union minister Srikant Jena as its head. While some have welcomed the decision, others have become critical in a guarded manner

Congress party in Odisha launched State-wide protests against the hike in the prices of fuel and other essential commodities from today which will continue till July 17

The Congress party in Odisha on Monday announced to launch State-wide protests from July 7 to 17 over the hike in the prices of fuel

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the 2014 general elections two Odisha Congress heavyweights Anup Sai and Bhupinder Singh, the then Legislature Party secretary and Leader of Opposition respectively, had joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD). Well, the ghost of exodus is back and it already seems to be haunting the party, threatening to derail its plans. Speculations […]