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Gurgaon: Senior Congress leader of Odisha, Lalatendu (Lulu) Bidyadhar Mohapatra, passed away at a private hospital in Gurgaon tonight. He was 52. Mohapatra was admitted to the ICU of Medanta Hospital after he sustained a brain stroke with multi-organ failure. The doctors despite all efforts could not save his life as he passed away at […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as 23 of the 33 District Congress Committee (DCC) chiefs along with some PCC general secretaries have left for Delhi to discuss the organisational affairs with party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, the leaders of Odisha Congress have remained tight-lipped about the subject to be discussed in the meeting today at 4pm. The meeting of […]

New Delhi: Leader of Opposition Narasingh Mishra came out with a clear stand on Monday after meeting Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi here that he has not resigned from the post. “I have not tendered my resignation. It is all a rumour”, Mishra said after meeting the party’s heir apparent at the latter’s residence this morning. […]

OPCC chief Prasad Harichandan today said the 12-hour bandh called by the party in the State tomorrow will be a reprimand to both the Odisha and Chhaatisgarh State governments and a solution to the Mahanadi water issue will come out

Bhubaneswar: A day after former Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) chief Niranjan Patnaik stirred up a hornet’s nest saying there are rats in the party, senior Congress leader Suresh Kumar Routray dismissed the statement of Patnaik and said there are no rats in the party and all partymen are gentlemen. “If anybody wants to see […]

Bhubaneswar: With the senior Congress leader engaging in the war of words on the formation of Lulu Sena by senior party leader Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra, the Disciplinary Committee of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) has decided to seek the advice of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). While some senior leaders have termed the […]

Bhubaneswar: The intra-party feud in the Odisha Congress came to the fore again on Tuesday following a heated argument between former Union minister and AICC spokesperson Bhakta Charan Das and Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Prasad Harichandan at the PCC state level convention here. Reports said the war of words between the two leaders […]

Exactly a year after taking charge as President of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC), Prasad Harichandan today admitted that there are differences among leaders of the party’s State unit

Bhubaneswar: The State-wide bandh was also marked by instances of violence as Congress workers were seen manhandling people and setting vehicles on fire, leading the Congress State president to tender an apology at a post-bandh press meet. In Shastri Nagar area of Bhubaneswar, angry locals torched two motor-cycles and damaged several vehicles, police said. Reports […]

Even though five months and fifteen days have passed since Prasad Harichandan took charge as president of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC), he is yet to finalise his new team. The party is yet to appoint the chiefs in more than 90 blocks and 10 districts. Such sluggishness in the party has started to mar the promise of spewing new lease of life into State Congress which Harichandan espoused

Bhubaneswar: As former Chief Minister and long-time Congress leader Giridhar Gamang begins his new innings with BJP, questions are now being raised about the ability of already-ailing Congress party to gain its footing in State amidst the vacuum created by Gamang’s departure. Interestingly, the question on the effect of Gamang’s departure on the future of […]

The opposition Congress today came down heavily on the BJD government in Odisha for failing to contain the spread of jaundice in Cuttack city

It’s official. Congress high command today named young leader Prasad Harichandan to lead the party in Odisha. He would replace Jayadev Jena as Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president. The much-awaited announcement came from All India Congress Committee (AICC) in the evening

Frequent change in party leadership is the main reason behind the failure of Congress in Odisha in last two decades, former Chief Minister Janaki Ballav Patnaik said while speaking to mediapersons here today

Bhubaneswar: Stating Bhuipnder Singh’s decision to leave Congress and join ruling BJD as ‘unfortunate’, state Congress leaders on Friday asserted the development won’t affect the grand-old party. “It is very unfortunate. Congress has given him a lot. I don’t know what led him to join the regional party,” said Jayadev Jena, president of Odisha Pradesh […]