Newdelhi:3/3/24:Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said that the BJP has announced candidates for some of the Lok Sabha seats and it will be announcing the rest of the seats in the coming days. Mr Modi has congratulated all those who have been nominated as BJP  candidates and also wished them the very best. In a social media post, the Prime ...

Bhubaneswar: 21/2/24:Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi, who was expelled from Biju Janata Dal (BJD) four years ago, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday ahead of the twin elections in Odisha. Panigrahi joined the saffron party in the presence of BJP’s Odisha unit president Manmohan Samal and other senior leaders at a special function held at the state party headquarters ...

Bhubaneswar: 20/2/24:All three candidates were on Tuesday elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Odisha. Two BJD candidates Debashish Samantaray and Subhasish Khuntia, and BJP candidate and Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw were elected unopposed to the Upper House of the Parliament from Odisha. Returning Officer Abanikanta Patnaik announced the names of the elected persons after the deadline for withdrawal of ...

Newdelhi:20/2/24:Shri Ram Nath Kovind, Chairman of the High-Level Committee (HLC) on One Nation One Election, and its members namely Shri N. K. Singh and Shri Sanjay Kothari today continued their interactions with political parties to examine the issue relating to holding of simultaneous elections in the country and make recommendations thereon. As part of this, a delegation from Bharatiya Janata ...

Newdelhi:13/2/24:Chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party and former party president Sonia Gandhi will be filing her nomination for the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan on Wednesday. Ms. Gandhi, the MP from Rae Bareli, is currently serving her fifth term in Lok Sabha, and this will be her first stint in the Upper House. Her decision to opt out of Lok Sabha ...

Bhubaneswar: Congress on Tuesday withdrew the suspension of Barabati-Cuttack legislator Mohammed Moquim and former Deputy Leader of CLP Chiranjib Biswal. The party also revoked the expulsion of former MLA Krushna Chandra Sagaria. Odisha Congress in-charge Ajoy Kumar made these announcements while addressing a presser here. This came a day after Moquim and Biswal met Ajoy Kumar in Bhubaneswar. “We should see ...

Bhubaneswar: 27/9/23:Former BJD MP from Kalahandi Arka Keshari Deo along with his wife Malabika joined the BJP in the state party office here on Wednesday. BJP Odisha President Manmohan Samal, Kalahandi MP Basant Panda and MLA Pradeepta Nayak welcomed both Arka Keshari Deo and his wife Malabika into the party fold. Arka Keshari joined Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in 2013 ...

Bhubaneswar:7/4/23: Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has appointed leaders as block and municipality observers for the ensuing by-election to the Jharsuguda Assembly seat. The appointments have been made by the order party President Naveen Patnaik, informed BJD Organizational Secretary Pranab Prakash Das.  

Bhubaneswar26/3/23:: The new BJP president of Odisha unit Manmohan Samal today asserted ensure party-led government after 2024 elections as he took charge from the incumbent party chief with a grand welcome at State headquarters in Bhubaneswar. A host of BJP leaders including State in-charge D Purandeswari, national vice president Baijayant Panda, former union Minister Pratap Sarangi, Jual Oram, outgoing president ...

Hyderabad.:27/1/23: Setting aside all speculations, former Odisha chief minister Giridhar Gamang, who had recently quit BJP, today joined Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Hyderabad. His son Sishir, former Minister Jayram Pangi, former MLA Nabin Nanda and Naba Nirman Krushak Sangathan (NNKS) leader Akshay Kumar also embraced the BRS in presence of party chief K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR). Earlier in the day, ...