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Bhubaneswar, June 5: The BJP got majority in the Odisha Assembly by winning 78 seats in the 147-member House on Tuesday, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI) after counting concluded on Tuesday. The Naveen Patnaik led-BJD which is in power in Odisha since 2000 managed to get 51 Assembly seats and the Congress […]
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Rourkela, May 18: “If they tell me, I won’t turn it down,” said BJP heavyweight Jual Oram, who is seeking re-election from Sundergarh Lok Sabha seat on Saturday amid his name doing rounds for the Chief Minister post if BJP wins in the State. “If they tell me, I won’t turn it down. But I […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 6: Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asserted that the BJP will have its own Government in Odisha on June 10, giving an indication that the Naveen Patnaik-led regional Biju Janata Dal (BJD) will be voted out of power, – BJD’s key strategist V Karthikeyan Pandian countered his statement and said, […]
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Bhubaneswar, April 16: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced the second list of candidates featuring 21 candidates for the ensuing Assembly elections in Odisha. Former Union Minister Dilip Ray has been named as the party’s candidate from Rourkela constituency. The party has changed its candidates in two Assembly seats – Ranpur and Pottangi. […]
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Bhubaneswar, April 9: Prospective ticket aspirants in Odisha are now passing tense moments as their party bosses adopt a dilatory approach to release full lists of candidates. Delay in release of the full lists of candidates has made the aspirants sit at their homes with fingers crossed. Odisha, which has got 21 Lok Sabha and […]
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Bhubaneswar, April 6: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha seems to be quite poised this time to do good in Lok Sabha and state assembly polls as the party is well ahead of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Congress in so far as attracting faces from the rival camps. Over a […]
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Bhubaneswar, April 4: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday demanded immediate expulsion of V Karthikeyan Pandian as Odisha 5T chairman. The acronym 5T stands for Teamwork, Transparency, Technology, Time, and Transformation. The government has introduced it as a governance model with an aim of improving administrative efficiency and ensuring efficient delivery of public services. […]
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Bhubaneswar, March 30: A delegation of Odisha unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJD) on Saturday knocked the door of Election Commission of India (ECI) and lodged a protest against the State Government providing high security cover VK Pandian, a Tamil Nadu-born bureaucrat-turned Biju Janata Dal (BJD) politician. Pandian, a close aide of CM Naveen Patnaik, […]
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Bhubaneswar, March 1: Putting all speculations to rest, Odisha State unit BJP president Manmohan Samal on Friday evening said his party would fight in all the 147 Assembly seats and 21 Lok Sabha seats in the State on its own strength and there will be no alliance with the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD). “The […]
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Bhubaneswar, February 14: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday announced the name of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw as Rajya Sabha candidate from Odisha. Vaishnaw will now seek re-nomination to the Rajya Sabha for the second time from the eastern State. Minutes after the BJP announcement, the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD announced that it will support Vaishnaw’s […]
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