Tag: Panchayat Poll

Kolkata: At least 10 people were killed and more than 50 injured on Monday in violence during the West Bengal panchayat polls, where around 73 per cent of the electorate had cast their votes at the end of balloting hours at 5 p.m. The State Election Commission said the polling percentage was 73 at the […]

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of BJP president Amit Shah’s proposed meeting with booth-level leaders of Odisha in April, BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is set to meet grass-root leaders as part of post-panchayat poll review. “The party president would meet grass-root level leaders starting from Sarpanch, Samiti members and Zilla Parishad members. The exercise would […]

Berhampur: A man, injured in pre- panchayat poll violence, died today at Bramhanachhai in Ganjam district, police said. The 65-year-old man and 11 others were injured in a clash between two groups at Bramhanchhai in Hinjili Assembly segment on February 20, while one person was killed. The man identified as Dandapani Pradhan was discharged from the […]

Kendrapara: The spectre of the chit fund scam has returned to haunt candidates in the fray for the three-tier panchayat election in Odisha. While ‘bijli-sadak-pani’ are common demands in most parts of the state, people in the coastal district of Kendrapara are asking whether the ponzi firm operators would be punished. The candidates contesting right […]

Berhampur: A large number of migrant workers, engaged in textiles industry in Gujarat’s Surat, are on their way home to villages in Ganjam district to cast their votes during the three-tier panchayat polls next month. The usually-sleepy railway stations of Berhampur, Keshapur and Chhatrapur are suddenly seeing a surge in passengers alighting from Okha-Puri and […]

Kendrapara: The Congress today lodged an FIR against the Kendrapara MLA and the Pattamundai BDO alleging that they hatched a “conspiracy” to deprive two Dalit women from contesting the upcoming panchayat polls in the State. “Democracy is being butchered in Kendrapara. The election officers in charge of conducting free-and-fair polls have formed an unholy alliance […]

Kendrapara: In the politically-sensitive Kendrapara district of Odisha, an IIT alumni has quit his job and lucrative career to fight the rural body polls in Dumuka gram panchayat. Nihar Ranjan Beura (50), an alumni of IIT Kharagpur has set his goal to transform the life of the villagers. “I filed nomination papers for member panchayat […]

Berhampur: Apprehending foul play by ruling BJD during panchayat polls in Odisha’s Ganjam, BJP demanded deployment of special protection forces in some of the vulnerable areas in the district. “We doubt if the elections will be free and fair with the local police on election duty because we feel it will favour the ruling party,” […]

Just for the heck of it, I posted this poser on my Facebook wall last evening: “Shall we ever see Naveen Patnaik gracing the Opposition benches?” The responses started coming in a torrent and have not stopped even now, numbering 45 at the last count. But what was noteworthy was that not even one of […]

By Sandeep Sahu Come election time and suddenly, cine stars are in great demand. As per a well-established tradition, the most sought after among them invariably head for the party in power with the opposition having to make do with second and third rung stars and starlets from tinsel town. It was no different when […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has once again filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court for injunction against Andhra Pradesh for its notification to conduct polls to Mandal Parishad Territorial…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has braced up to move the Supreme Court with a writ petition challenging Andhra Pradesh’ announcement to conduct panchayat election in three villages of Kotia in Koraput district. In a letter to the Advocate on Record (AOR) Sibo Sankar Mishra, the deputy secretary of Law Department Bhagaban Nayak stated, “You (Mishra) […]