Tag: Panchayat Elections

Panchayat Polls: Political Heavyweights Firing All Cylinders To Ensure Victory For Candidates
Panchayat Polls: Political Heavyweights Firing All Cylinders To Ensure Victory For Candidates

Former Union Minister and Balasore MP (BJP) Pratap Sarangi seems to have made it a point to go out of his way to secure victory for his party’s candidates.

  • Thursday, 10 February 2022
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Eggs Thrown At BJD MP Ramesh Majhi’s Car In Odisha’s Nabarangpur
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Eggs Thrown At BJD MP Ramesh Majhi’s Car In Odisha’s Nabarangpur

The irate villagers carrying lathis chased Majhi’s car, intending to attack him when the BJD parliamentarian was on campaign trail.

  • Thursday, 10 February 2022
Odisha Panchayat Elections: Candidate Promises Development On Stamp Paper
Odisha Panchayat Elections: Candidate Promises Development On Stamp Paper

With the Panchayat elections just a handful of days away, campaigning by candidates seems to have reached fever pitch in Odisha. 

  • Wednesday, 09 February 2022
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Transgender ‘Priya’ In Race For Sarpanch Post In Sambalpur
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Transgender ‘Priya’ In Race For Sarpanch Post In Sambalpur

Till a few days ago, boarding trains, going from compartments to compartments while seeking alms were all in a day’s work for Priya.

  • Tuesday, 08 February 2022
Odisha Panchayat Polls
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Villagers Collect Money To Help Candidate On Campaign Trail

Believe it or not, Odisha's Buthipadar villagers came forward to help a candidate contesting the Panchayat polls, ostensibly to see him victorious

  • Monday, 07 February 2022
Time To Repay: Odisha Man In Panchayat Poll Fray After Villagers’ Love Help Him Survive Brain Stroke
Time To Repay: Odisha Man In Panchayat Poll Fray After Villagers Help Him Survive Brain Stroke

Life is full of uncertainties. The rich can become a pauper in no time. It is also extraordinary how destiny turns one from rags to riches in a short time.

  • Monday, 07 February 2022
'BJD Infighting' Comes Out In Open In Puri, Minister Refutes, Says Will Not Affect
'BJD Infighting' Comes To Fore In Puri, Minister Refutes, Says Will Not Affect 

A rift between two groups of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) workers came to fore in Gop block of Puri district on Sunday. 

  • Monday, 07 February 2022
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Candidates In Ganjam Leave No Stone Unturned To Woo Migrant Voters
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Candidates In Ganjam Leave No Stone Unturned To Woo Migrant Voters

Three years after the general election, the villages in Ganjam district have once again gone into election frenzy. Amidst these activities, another common scene of hundreds of Ganjam residents living in Surat returning to their villages can be seen on any day these days. 

  • Friday, 04 February 2022
Odisha Panchayat Polls: BJP Accuses BJD Of Using Teachers For Campaigning, Files Complaint With SEC 
Odisha Panchayat Polls: BJP Accuses BJD Of Using Teachers For Campaigning, Files Complaint With SEC 

The saffron party leaders lodged a complaint with the State Election Commission and demanded action against those involved in the violation of the rules.

  • Friday, 04 February 2022
Sarpanch Candidate Found Begging In Odisha’s Balasore
Sarpanch Candidate Found Begging In Odisha’s Balasore

Bichitri Patra, a Sarpanch candidate in the forthcoming Odisha Panchayat Polls, is touching every household in Baunsagadhia Panchayat under Khaira Block in Balasore district while asking for alms.

  • Thursday, 03 February 2022
Fed Up With False Assurances, Villagers In 3 Odisha Districts Decide To Boycott Panchayat Elections
Fed Up With False Assurances, Villagers In 3 Odisha Districts Decide To Boycott Panchayat Elections

While the villagers are yet to get ration cards, drinking water, pucca roads, construction of school building and Anganwadi centre’s boundary wall have been in their wish list for a long period now.   

  • Tuesday, 01 February 2022
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Young Satraps In Front Seat As Veterans Take Backroom 
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Young Satraps In Front Seat As Veterans Take Backroom 

And the young cubs are going the extra mile to not let down their aging fathers. 

  • Thursday, 27 January 2022
Scarce Drinking Water, Corruption Ail Puri Villages; Become Poll Issues 
Scarce Drinking Water, Corruption Ail Puri Villages; Become Poll Issues 

Despite living closer to the sea, the residents of Brahmagiri area are struggling to get their daily quota of fresh water.

  • Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Candidates, Political Parties Firing On All Cylinders To Ensure Victory  
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Candidates, Political Parties Firing On All Cylinders To Ensure Victory  

The three main political parties- the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress- have meanwhile finalized their calibrated strategies to ensure victory of their candidates. 

  • Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Persons With Disabilities Trying Luck In Politics
Odisha Panchayat Polls: Persons With Disabilities Trying Luck In Politics

Mallick is not a rich person, nor does he have political experience. Yet, he has been the cynosure of all eyes because despite his physical impediments, he is in the fray for the crucial rural body polls. 

  • Tuesday, 25 January 2022
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