This time around, Facebook and WhatsApp are going to be flooded with videos of candidates making enticing promises and hankering for votes.
Around 2.79 crore voters across the State will exercise their franchise to elect 91,913 Ward members, 6,794 Sarpanchs, 6,793 Panchayat Samiti members, and 853 Zilla Parishad members. The voting will commence at 7 am and continue till 1 pm.
Politics has heated up in villages across the State with meetings being hold to select the candidates and chalk out strategies for the Panchayat polls in Odisha
BJP said that the ruling BJD knows that wind is not blowing in their favour and the upcoming elections will take a toll on the party
The State Election Commissioner Aditya Prasad Padhi on Tuesday declared dates for the Panchayat polls in Odisha. In view of the Covid-19 situation, the Commission also announced a slew of guidelines to be strictly followed during the entire election process- from filing of nomination by candidates to counting of votes.
The counting of votes, which will be done at Block sadar level, will be held on February 26, 27 and 28; the model of conduct has come into effect in the State from today
The Chief Electoral Officer of Odisha on Wednesday released the final electoral rolls of the eligible voters ahead of the elections to the three-tier Panchayati Raj bodies in the State.
It has become a trend for the BJD government to lure voters with promises of freebies ahead of elections, alleged Odisha BJP
The video clip showing Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik praying Lord Jagannath has set the political temperature soaring with the Opposition parties alleging that the ruling party has played the same card it had played during the 2019 general elections in order to woo voters as the Panchayat and the Civic body elections are round the corner.
The bigger challenge that has emerged before the grand old party Congress is to get the party arranged. After many of its leaders defected to the BJD, the challenges before the seniors now is to enhance the confidence of the workers at the ground level.
The State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to intensify its campaign and attack on the ruling BJD on the OBC reservation issue.
The Odisha government’s new reservation list for different posts of PRIs like Sarpanch, Panchayat Samiti and Zilla Parishad members and chairmen of Blocks and Zilla Parishads will boomerang on the BJD, Opposition parties claimed on Wednesday.
The scuffle reportedly broke out after a section of the BJD workers alleged massive irregularities in the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) and Public Distribution System (PDS) in the region.
The Odisha government on Friday re-published the draft list of reservations for the post of Zilla Parishad (ZP) Presidents across the State ahead of the forthcoming elections to the Panchayat Elections.
The Congress alleged that the BJD seems to be engaged in giving alms to people and buying votes instead of thinking about the development of Odisha.
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