Tag: Odisha Elections 2019

Bhubaneswar: BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s announcement that the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) would field 33% women candidates in Lok Sabha seats seems to have rendered all calculations and assessments useless. More disconcerting though is the fact that the party currently has only three women parliamentarians and all eyes are now on […]

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack: With the model code of conduct coming into effect after the announcement of the 2019 general poll dates, the Odisha Income Tax (IT) department and the State Police have geared up to ensure free and fair elections across the State beginning April 11. The IT department has set up a 24X7 functional control room […]

Malkangiri: With the declaration of dates for the upcoming general polls in Odisha, incidents of Naxal violence were reported from two separate places of the State today. The Maoists killed a relative of a road construction contractor at Kukurkunda village under Mathili police limits of Malkangiri district. The deceased Gupta Swain was working as supervisor […]

Bhubaneswar: Elections 2019 will be etched in capital letters in India’s electoral history as it has many innovative electoral reforms to its credit that could have far-reaching consequences on the electoral process of the world’s largest democracy. Significantly, when there has been a murmur on the shortcomings in the poll process with regard to the […]

Bhubaneswar: With the announcement of poll dates in Odisha, several political leaders are coming off the fence, while political parties have begun the process to strengthen their positions by roping in disgruntled leaders from opposition flanks to their own fold. Ahead of the elections, as many as 24 youth leaders of Biju Chhatra Janata Dal […]

Bhubaneswar: The problem of plenty has started to haunt the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha, at least to some extent, with the party reflecting on giving a chance to new faces in the four segments going to the polls in the first phase on April 11. Odisha will witness Lok Sabha and Assembly […]

Bhubaneswar: The ruling-BJD in Odisha will be wiped out in the 2019 elections, predicted BJP’sOdisha in-charge, Arun Singh while claiming that the countdown for Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has already begun. Singh further stated the BJD is losing ground in the State fast as many leaders from other parties are keen to join BJP. Party’s […]

Bhubaneswar: Already finding it difficult to recuperate from the sudden blow Jay Panda gave it by joining the saffron party, the BJD in the State seems to have again suffered a setback as one of its former senior leaders today party-hopped and joined the BJP. Babu Singh, the former BJD Bhubaneswar district unit working president, […]

Nabarangpur: The district unit of Congress has accused the ruling-BJD of violating the model code of conduct in the district by distributing sarees in Dabugaon area of Nabarangpur district.

When the BJP and the Congress open their doors to defectors from other parties ahead of the elections, it is hardly surprising. After all, both these parties have been in doldrums in the state for far too long – the former since 2009, when BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik left it high and dry with his […]

Bhubaneswar: Announcement of the poll schedule by the Election Commission has set the political temperature soaring in the state. With the Commission staggering the polls and Odisha set to vote in four phases stretching from April 11 to April 29, one can expect a long and acrimonious campaign. The escalating war of words between Naveen […]

Bhubaneswar: In a major political development which may have wide repercussions particularly in Nabarangpur electoral politics in 2019, sitting BJD MP Balabhadra Majhi resigned from the primary membership of BJD on Thursday. Visibly anguished Majhi unhesitatingly not only termed BJD ‘undemocratic’ but felt ‘cheated’ as party sidelined him. In a four page letter to Party […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid growing speculations about his son Sambit Routray being considered an aspirant for the Paradip Assembly constituency, senior leader and Paradip MLA Damodar Rout today said he has no idea whether his son is aspiring to be the BJD candidate from Paradip, but pledged that he will ensure Naveen Patnaik fails to form the […]

Bhubaneswar: Slamming the Odisha government for neglecting the demands of the investors duped by several chit fund companies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today promised to identify and return money to investors within a year if the party is voted to power in the upcoming elections. Addressing a presser, senior BJP leader Biswa Bhusan Harichandan […]

Bhubaneswar: With elections round the corner, the capital city has witnessed an increase in violent incidences in the last couple of days. On Saturday, two miscreants opened fire at a security guard of a Kalyan Mandap on Tankapani Road in Bhubaneswar. While the reason behind the attack is yet to be ascertained, it is being […]