The new rule has allowed for appointment of agents by political parties and the election officer will allow the authorised agents to verify the votes cast by the elected members of their respective parties as is being done during the Rajya Sabha elections.
When there is a will there is a way. While this is a very common saying, but pretty effective if looked through the lenses of these three men and women who dared to go against the tide to emerge victorious in the recently concluded civic polls in Odisha and become corporators and councilors.
The urban poll results reflect an apparent public discontentment against the ruling party in Ganjam district.
A day after several senior administrative officials of the State government machinery called on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to extend congratulations over BJD's landslide victory in the urban local body elections, the Odisha unit of BJP on Monday lashed out at the State's top bureaucracy and accused it of tarnishing the image of civil service ethics and code.
Though the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) registered a thumping victory in the recently concluded Urban Local Body (ULB) polls, political analysts view that the mood of the urban voters, rebel BJD candidates and confusion in ticket distribution might have hindered BJD in recording a clean sweep.
Expressing gratitude, the parliamentarian thanked the voters for the Bhubaneswar for showing trust in BJP and supporting the party candidates in the ULB polls held on March 24.
The BJD has won chairperson seats in 73 municipalities/NACs and mayor seats in all three municipal corporations -- Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Berhampur
The police resorted to lathi charge on corporator candidates and their supporters protesting the alleged EVM tampering by a BJD supporter at the strong room created at the Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar (BJB) Autonomous College in Bhubaneswar on Friday. The counting of votes for the ULB polls will be held tomorrow.
SEC Secretary, Rabindranath Sahu said as per the schedule the counting of votes will start at 8 am tomorrow (March 26) and continue till all votes are counted.
The BJD workers and supporters allegedly vandalised BJP leader Manoranjan Dyansamantaray’s vehicle and several other bikes, sources in formed.
Sisir Kumar Sahu, the Vice Chairman alleged that he was attacked by independent candidate Arati Pradhan’s husband and his associate.
BJP worker from Ward No-10 of Jaleswar Municipality, Rajeswar Andiya was standing near a temple on Wednesday evening when some youths allegedly attacked him with knives.
As the polling date for the Odisha Urban elections in Odisha inches closer, the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) seems to have found itself in a tight situation with rebel candidates throwing open challenge to the party leadership.
Since the campaigning will come to an end on Tuesday evening, the candidates appear to be in no mood to let the crucial hours go waste and are going out of their ways to woo the slum dwellers.
In the Silk City Berhampur, which is set for an extremely tight battle, campaigning is at fever pitch with candidates coming up with their manifesto, while the development cries of weaver community in the city have taken centre stage as one of the major poll issue.
With the election date is inching closer, Kalpana Majhi of BJD, Anuradha Agrawal of BJP and Tapaswini Behera of Congress are leaving no stone unturned to woo the voters.
With the tragedy of the washing away of a Class X student in an open drain in Shatabdi Nagar under Ward no-51 last September still fresh in incident, the city residents wish the elected corporators and Mayor should address the issues.
Though BJD has fielded Pradyumna Tripathy as its chairperson candidate for Barpali NAC, it is believed that infighting within the party may prove costly for the ruling party in the local poll
Every nook and corner of the city is now dotted with party-flags and life-size cut-outs, banners of candidates contesting the polls for the post of corporator and Mayor.
While the BJP and the Congress are hopeful of successfully vanquishing the BJD bastion, the ruling party claims it will retain the municipality with ease
The campaigning has gained pace in every nook and corner of the city with candidates trying outsmart one another in order to take charge of the 70-year-old municipal council
The control room, which has been set up to ensure no violation of the MCC, will functions from 9 AM to 8 PM daily till the MCC is in force
To know what actually the smart voters of the Smart City want from their candidate, OTV spoke to a cross section of electors to find out what they really expect from their next Mayor
BJD is confident of the party repeating the Panchayat poll performance in the ensuing Municipal elections 2022
The municipality, which came into existence in 1876, has a total of 31 Wards and a population of around 3 lakh along with a slew of issues being allegedly pushed to the back burner since long
The polling for 109 civic bodies, including three municipal corporations, is scheduled to be held on March 24.
The BJP leaders demanded release of one Rakesh Jena, brother of their party’s female corporator candidate.
While the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has fielded Sanghamitra Dalai for the Mayor post, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s pick is Dr Sabita Suar and the grand old party Congress’s choice is Manju Rath.
Bizarre scenes were noticed at the Ganjam Sub-Collector’s office in Berhampur on Monday as senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were seen guarding the office gate to ensure that none of their Corporator candidates withdrew nomination for the upcoming Urban Local Body polls.
According to sources, Angul Municipality will see a father-son contest in the ensuing political battle. Bhimsen Mandothia is contesting from a BJP ticket as a councillor from ward number-5 while his son Ranjit Mandothia will fight against him for the post from BJD camp.
BJP’s Member of Parliament from Bhubaneswar, Aparajita Sarangi made a sensational revelation on Tuesday when she said that some political leaders have started luring voters by offering to purchase their votes for the upcoming BMC polls.
The highest number of 5,045 candidates filed their nominations on the last day. Of them 4,541 nominations were filed for councilor/corporator posts and the remaining 504 for the post of chairperson/mayors.
The element of surprise here is CM Patnaik's this decision will open up the Rajya Sabha contest in the State, if Opposition shows the spine to not give BJD a walkover
The government servants should remain absolutely impartial during the ULB elections and he/she shall not indulge in any campaigning activities for or against any contesting candidate or any political party, he said.
Suggestions and views of all the political parties have been invited over the proposed list
As 107 municipalities and notified area councils (NACs), besides Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Berhampur municipal corporations are likely to go for polls by the end of April or beginning of May, the State government is working overtime complete the necessary exercises, like Ward delimitations.
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