Tag: Tara Prasad Bahinipati

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader Bijay Mohapatra today said his party leader and Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan should refrain from giving varied opinions on Mahanadi issue. “The Union minister should refrain from giving different statements on Mahanadi issue at different places,” he told media persons here. Asked about the inaction of the state government in expediting […]

Bhubaneswar: Members cutting across party lines in the State Assembly today expressed their grave concern over gross irregularities in the distribution of ration card. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, BJD member Padmanav Behera asked the Food Supply and Consumer Welfare department to state about the steps it has taken so far to distribute ration […]

Jeypore: A day after four Congress legislators including three from the undivided Koraput district met party vice president Rahul Gandhi, Opposition party Chief Whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati said it is irrelevant for him if any one opposes him except common people of his constituency. Asked about the involvement of the PCC leadership in the visit […]

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 […]

The Odisha Assembly was adjourned till 3 pm on Wednesday after Opposition members created a ruckus while Law minister Arun Sahu was giving a statements on funds credited into a SBI account belonging to BJD, as alleged by Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra

Bhubaneswar: Protesting against the police summons to Congress chief whiff Tara Prasad Bahinipati, party legislators today created a pandemonium in the Assembly forcing the Speaker to adjourn the House twice. Leader of Opposition Narasingh Mishra raised the Bahinipati issue as soon as the House met at 10.30 am. However, Speaker Niranjan Pujari paid little heed […]

Bhubaneswar: Congress chief whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati landed in a soup after it emerged that arrested former Sanakhemundi MLA Ramesh Jena and his associates were staying in the official quarters of the Jeypore MLA and allegedly running their criminal activities from there. In a startling revelation, it has now come to the fore that the […]

Bhubaneswar: To protest against the arrest of Congress leader and former MLA from Sanakhemundi Ramesh Jena, the party has decided to gherao the office of the Inspector General (southern range) on March 11. Congress chief whip Taraprasad Bahinipati, who met IG Amitabh Thakur today and sought permission to meet the arrested leader, said the demonstration […]

Senior Congress leader Tara Prasad Bahinipati said Nanda’s argument of non-involvement of his son in the attack on the kin of the Congress leader is untrue. In an interview with the channel, Bahinpati also put forward proofs to justify his claims that the Mass Education minister’s son was present at the crime spot

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly today witnessed uproar when opposition Congress and BJP demanded a discussion on the violence during the three-tire panchayat elections which ended on February 21. The Opposition legislators shouted slogans standing on their seats on the second day of the budget session. They demanded that the discussion be held immediately after cancelling […]

Bhubaneswar: After Krushna Chandra Sagaria and Tara Prasad Bahinipati, the on-going tug of war between Odisha Congress chief Niranjan Patnaik and senior Congress leader Srikant Jena seems to be snowballing into a major controversy ahead of AICC president Rahul Gandhi’s scheduled visit to the State. Though initially the exchange of words was limited between Srikant […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when voices of dissent are growing within the Congress over Tara Prasad Bahinipati’s move to bring a breach of privilege motion against OTV for a factual report the channel telecast, senior leader Sarat Rout today categorically stated that the Congress doesn’t back such motion. Moreover, Rout further alleged that it was […]

Bhubaneswar: Resentment is brewing across Odisha among journalists as well as political leaders who have condemned the privilege motion moved by the Opposition party chief whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati against OTV for a telecasting a factual report on the proceedings inside the Odisha Assembly. Terming it as an attempt to muzzle the voice of media; […]

Koraput: Alleging involvement of senior BJD leader Rabi Nanda in the recent murderous attack on two persons in Jeypore, Congress leader Tara Prasad Bahinipati today demanded an impartial probe into the incident. At a presser, Bahinipati also showed a photograph in which some suspects in the alleged firing incident are seen with Sports and Youth […]

Bhubaneswar: Expressing displeasure over senior Congress leader Tara Prasad Bahinipati’s decision to move breach of privilege motion against OTV in Odisha Assembly, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) RTI Cell chairman, Hemant Panda today resigned from his post. “Without moving for a no-confidence motion against the government and the Speaker, he (Tara Bahinipati) moved a privilege […]