Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today fielded senior advocate Pitambar Acharya as its candidate from Hinjili Assembly constituency, CM Naveen Patnaik’s home turf. “In an interview to an English paper one year back, I had stated that CM will taste defeat from Hinjili and this time it is going to be true. Fearing defeat, […]
Bhubaneswar: Amidst show of strength, the heavyweights of several political parties today filed nominations for the constituencies going to polls in the first phase on April 11. BJD supremo and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik filed his nomination for Bijepur Assembly seat before the Padampur Sub-Collector today. Official sources said a total of 245 candidates including […]
Bhubaneswar: This is election time, the season of defections. Political loyalties become conveniently fickle at this time and expediency invariably gets precedence over principles. What else can explain former minister, Damodar Rout, a lifelong critic of BJP, entering the poll fray on the lotus symbol. This is going to be his last hurrah or sigh […]
Technically speaking, I had my first taste of Indian elections in the winter of December, 1984. An aspiring journalist at the time, I was sent to Mayurbhanj as part of an extensive opinion poll on the post-Indira Gandhi general elections in December being conducted by the mint-fresh Odia daily ‘Sambad’. [Happy to tell you I […]
Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday named Sanat Gadtia as the party’s candidate from Bijepur Assembly constituency. Gadtia will now take on BJD chief Naveen Patnaik who is also contesting from Hinjili Assembly seat. Announcement of the candidate for Bijepur seat under Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency, which will go to the polls in […]
Bhubaneswar: Expressing displeasure over allotment of tickets, senior BJP leader Subash Chouhan today resigned from the saffron party. Chouhan was reportedly unhappy after he was denied ticket to contest from Bargarh Lok Sabha seat. Though Chouhan had unsuccessfully contested the 2014 elections on BJP ticket, party workers and others believed that the saffron party would […]
Bhubaneswar: Elections are all about chemistry and arithmetic… And the BJP is well aware how the ruling-BJD is on a strong footing in Odisha on both counts. While BJD is harping on CM Naveen Patnaik’s popularity, strong vote base and huge cadre, the State BJP seems to have ‘miscalculated’ its moves to checkmate the Naveen […]
“Discretion is the better part of valour.” That is the lesson BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik appears to have learnt from the utter mayhem that followed the announcement of the first list of candidates for nine Lok Sabha and 54 Assembly constituencies on March 18, if the third list of candidates for nine Lok Sabha and […]
Bhubaneswar: The Electoral officers on Wednesday rejected the nominations of eight candidates from 5 Parliamentary constituencies and 38 candidates from 35 Assembly constituencies going to polls in the second phase of elections on April 18. Parliamentary and Assembly segments under Bolangir, Bargarh, Kandhamal, Aska and Sundergarh Lok Sabha constituencies will go to polls during the […]
Koraput: Ahead of the crucial elections in Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today kicked off party’s poll campaign in the State by addressing a mega public meeting at Jeypore in Koraput district. Modi launched scathing attacks both on Congress and the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for keeping Odisha backward for decades. “People of Odisha […]
Bhubaneswar: As the electoral race to Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in Odisha reaches fever pitch, unabated exodus of leaders from BJD continues to mount up more worries for the ruling-party. While several leaders of BJD, disgruntled over denial of poll tickets, are resigning from the party, dissidence also continues to spill on to street. […]
Bhubaneswar: Wrong selection of candidate for wrong constituency sometimes spoils a party’s poll prospects and the same seems to have happened with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency of Odisha where exodus from the party continues unabated. After Subash Chauhan, nine Zilla Parishad members of the party have now resigned allegedly […]
Bhubaneswar: Unaccounted cash worth over Rs 17 lakh was seized from several parts of Odisha in the past two days. As per reports, Badamal Police in Jharsuguda seized Rs 4.5 lakh and Rs 1.5 lakh from two separate vehicles on Friday. Similarly, the Election flying squad seized Rs 6.70 lakh from a van near Koida […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha minister and BJD’s Ghasipura Assembly candidate Badri Narayan Patra is likely to see a tough fight in the 2019 elections, as OPCC chief Niranjan Patnaik has reportedly accepted his challenge to contest from Ghasipura. Patnaik said that he will fight from Ghasipura if All India Congress Committee (AICC) gives a go ahead. Taking […]
Bhubaneswar/Aska: State BJP vice president and BJP candidate against the BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik from Hinjili Assembly constituency, Pitambar Acharya seems to have invited trouble just ahead of the 2019 polls. A case has been lodged against Acharya for allegedly misbehaving with an on-duty magistrate and a police official. As per […]
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