Tag: Prasad Harichandan

Bhadrak: The simmering intra-party tensions in the Congress boiled over in the form of a group clash during a party meeting at Bhadrak this morning. According to reports, a constituency-wise panchayat members’ meeting in the presence of PCC president Prasad Harichadan and AICC secretary and Odisha in-charge BK Hariprasad was underway at the Town Hall […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Amid speculation about a growing demand in the Congress party to replace Opposition chief whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati, three party leaders – Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) chief Prasad Harichandan and legislators Naba Kishore Das and Bahinipati – called on party vice president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Monday. Das is believed […]

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Odisha visit on June 2, the Congress today fired a fresh salvo at the saffron party terming its scheduled second anniversary celebration named ‘Bikash Utsav’ as ‘Bakwas Utsav’. National spokesperson of the grand old party Sobha Oza, while issuing a booklet on the alleged failures of the Modi-government […]

Bhubaneswar: The war of words over the repair work of Jagmohan is getting shriller by the day with the Congress using the opportunity to train its guns on both the BJP-led central government and the BJD government in the state. While the Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra is scheduled to visit the temple today, Odisha […]

The State unit of the Congress led by OPCC chief Prasad Harichandan will stage a protest today demanding the resignation of Minister Sanjay Das Burma over his alleged links with chit-fund company Artha Tatwa Group

Bhubaneswar: At a time when trouble for Food and Consumer Welfare minister Sanjay Das Burma is mounting with each passing day, Odisha Pradesh Committee (OPCC) chief Prasad Harichandan said the minister should tender his resignation on moral grounds.

In an effort to ensure unity in the party which, of late, has witnessed a series of incidents with some senior leaders engaging in a war of words, president of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Prasad Harichandan has convened a meeting of the PCC Coordination Committee on February 21

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 […]

Intra-party feud in the Odisha Congress has become more open this time with a senior leader urging the party high command and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi to remove Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Prasad Harichandan from his post for his inept leadership in the wake of the party’s miserable show in the recent civic body elections in the state

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 […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when the State government is being attacked left, right and centre over the Brahma Paribartan fiasco, a picture of Law minister Arun Sahu sleeping among servitors, which is doing rounds in the social media, has created a buzz among the general public and drawn sharp criticism from the opposition Congress and […]

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