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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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Bhubaneswar, October 17: In order to push forward the younger generation to take on aggressive leaders from rival parties, the Odisha BJP on Monday appointed three new young spokespersons in the State. Tejeshwar Parida, Anil Biswal and Manoj Mohapatra have been appointed as new State spokespersons of the party, informed BJP State medial cell chief […]
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Bhubaneswar, October 9: Suryabanshi Suraj, son of late BJP MLA Bishnu Charan Sethi, on Sunday named as the BJP candidate for the by-elections to the Dhamnagar Assembly constituency, scheduled on November 3. The by-election was necessitated after the untimely demise of sitting BJP MLA Bishnu Charan Sethi on September 19. The BJP Central Election Committee […]
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New Delhi/Bhubaneswar, March 16: A delegation of BJP MPs led by Union Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday met Union Food & Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi over irregularities in paddy procurement in the State. It came a day after BJD MPs’ meeting with the Union Minister […]
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