Raghunath Mohanty joins BJP, likely to contest from Basta Assembly seat

Bhubaneswar: Senior leader Raghunath Mohanty, who resigned from the BJD on Sunday after being denied ticket, joined BJP on Tuesday and is expected to be fielded in the Assembly polls from his home turf Basta in Balasore district. The veteran leader joined the saffron party in the presence of Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and party […]

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Patkura MLA Bed Prakash Agrawal’s wife & son meet Naveen

Bhubaneswar: The wife and son of Patkura MLA Bed Prakash Agrawal on Tuesday met BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at Naveen Nivas here. Bed Prakash aged around 80 has been renominated from Patkura Assembly Constituency, but he hasn’t collected the party ticket yet due to illness. He has been admitted to a city-based […]

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Time has come for a change in Odisha, says PM Modi

Bhawanipatna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that time has come for a change in Odisha. Addressing an election rally at Krishna Nagar Ground in Bhawanipatna Town in Kalahandi district, Modi lambasted the Congress and BJD and said Odisha will script history in the same manner Uttar Pradesh and Tripura did in 2017 and […]

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Jobs, drinking water, roads top priorities for voters in Odisha: Survey

Bhubaneswar: Better employment opportunities, drinking water and road connectivity are the top priorities for the voters in Odisha, as per a survey by the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR). The ADR conducted a voter survey between October 2018 and December 2018. The survey covered approximately 10,500 respondents across all 21 parliamentary constituencies of Odisha. According […]

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PM Modi, Shivraj, Raghubar to address rallies tomorrow in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: A host of BJP heavyweights like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das, Union Minister Raj Kumar Singh to address election rallies in different parts of Odisha on Tuesday While Chouhan will address rallies in Rahama and Raghunathpur in Jagatsinghpur district, Jharkhand CM Das will […]

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Naveen announces names of 18 more MLA candidates

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday announced names of 18 MLA candidates. Total 117 candidates announced so far by the BJD. Senior BJP leader Damodar Rout’s son Sambit Routray will contest from Paradip. While Maheswar Mohanty will fight from Puri Assembly constituency, Debashis Samantaray will contest from Cuttack-Barabati. […]

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Odisha deserves a good Government and BJP will fulfil it, says PM Modi

Koraput: Ahead of his visit to Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that Odisha deserves a good Government and BJP will fulfil it. “The ruling-BJD has been unable to fulfil the needs of people while Congress has failed to play the role of an Opposition in the State. So, Odisha deserves a good […]

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Kalyani begins high-voltage campaign

Paralakhemundi: BJD candidate Yuvarani Kalyani Devi has started a high-voltage campaigning with party workers across the Paralakhemundi Assembly constituency. Kalyani Devi, a descendant of Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati’s family, is respected by people of Gajapati district because of developmental works done over a hundred years ago by the royal family. As many as seven canals, […]

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