Tag: Third Front

Bhubaneswar: At a time when the regional forces are coming together to check the Modi wave in the country, the news of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao meeting Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the first week of May has stoked speculations. However, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik downplayed the reports and said that KCR […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik, who had been outright about maintaining equal distance from the BJP and the Congress in the past, today said that his party BJD has not thought about any alliance for the time being. Amid how things have turned out in Bijepur bypoll in Odisha and bypolls in UP and Bihar, […]

Even though 2017 did not bring any great upheaval in the political landscape of Odisha, it had enough stirrings. Patterns assumed new paradigms, faces got facelifts, oblique became overt, status quo brought predicaments, leaderships lost loyalty and infighting prodded implosions. We look back at some of the stories which created ripples…   Poll battles ahead […]

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has responded positively to the proposal for a federal front mooted by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after her spectacular victory in the Assembly elections yesterday. But the party has stopped short of pledging its support for such a move. While accepting that there is need for such […]

Bhubaneswswar: Referring Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik as an “advocate” of the Third Front, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today criticised him for his failure to stop the migration of people from the state, including his home district Ganjam. “Let the advocate of Third Front use a chopper and take a glimpse of the […]

Bhubaneswar: BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who was the first to advocate an alternative government minus Congress and BJP at the Centre, today said it was still too early for such a move. “I think, the moment is still in early days as I have said earlier,” Patnaik told reporters here in […]

Bhubaneswar: With BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik hinting at extending support to the proposed Third Front in the 2014 general elections, leaders of the ruling party today claimed the Odisha Chief Minister would play a key role in government formation at the Centre. “BJD will play a key role in government formation at the Centre after […]