Tag: Odisha Rajya Sabha Polls

Bhubaneswar: Three Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidates – Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, Achyuta Samanta and Prasanta Nanda were elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha on Thursday after the last date of withdrawal of nomination ended today. Returning officer Patil Rajesh Prabhakar declared the names of three ruling party candidates as elected members to the upper house of […]

Bhubaneswar:  It’s often said strategy wins elections. The Rajya Sabha picks by  CM Naveen Patnaik has a meticulous poll strategy behind.  Patnaik named 4 candidates – Sujit Kumar, Subhash Singh, Munna Khan and Mamata Mahanta- on Saturday, despite not having the numbers to sweep all the 4 seats on offer. The BJD has only 113 […]

Bhubaneswar: All the four BJD candidates were on Wednesday elected to the Rajya Sabha unopposed as opposition BJP and Congress did not field any nominee for the polls scheduled to be held on March 26. Odisha Assembly Secretary-cum Returning Officer for the Rajya Sabha polls, Dasarathi Satpathy announced election of the four BJD candidates- Subhas […]