Bhubaneswar: 28/3/24:With the Biju Janata Dal announcing the first and second list of candidates for the upcoming General and Assembly elections, the election atmosphere in the state is heating up. Party Supremo Naveen Patnaik yesterday announced the names of 15 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections and 72 names for the State Assembly elections. After the announcement of the candidates, ...

Bhubaneswar:22/3/24: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the ruling party of Odisha, got more than half of its electoral bond donations from three mining and steel companies, according to the latest data released by the Election Commission. Of the Rs 775 crore redeemed from 42 donors from April 12, 2019, to January 2024, Rs 175 crore is from Essel Mining, followed ...

Bhubaneswar:22/3/24: Ahead of the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha, senior leader and former Kendrapada MP  Archana Nayak joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bhubaneswar on Friday. Archana, BJD’s Member of Parliament from Kendrapada Lok Sabha constituency from 2004 to 2009, joined BJP at a special function held at the state party headquarters in Odisha capital. She joined the saffron ...

Bhubaneswar:22/3/24: After Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its decision to go it alone in the upcoming elections in Odisha, the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Friday claimed it will win more than 75 percent of the Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in the state. With both political parties making their intentions clear, all speculations about a possible BJP-BJD alliance ...

Bhubaneswar: 20/3/24:In a major shot in the arm for the Biju Janata Dal before the General and Assembly elections, Member of Legislative Assembly from Khariar Adhiraj Mohan Panigrahi today joined the ruling Party. He had resigned from the Congress Party yesterday. He joined the BJD in a joining program held at the Sankha Bhaban. He along with his hundreds of ...

Bhubaneswar: 18/3/24:Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the ruling party of Odisha, got a total donation of Rs 1,020 crore in 5 years, and of these,944.5 crore were encashed through electoral bonds between July 16, 2018, and July 15, 2023. According to the new information, which was previously submitted to the Supreme Court in sealed cover and released by Election Commission on ...

Bhubaneswar:17/3/2 4: With the announcement of the poll schedule, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has prepared its list of probable candidates for all the Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Odisha, pushing the alliance talks with Biju Janata Dal (BJD) to the back seat. The election committee of BJP’s Odisha unit held a marathon meeting at the state party headquarters in ...

Bhubaneswar: 15/3/24:In a fresh jolt to the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD), actor-politician, Arindam Roy resigned from the party’s primary membership on Friday and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Arindam, who was holding the post of general secretary and was the star campaigner of the BJD since the 2014 elections, submitted his resignation to party supremo Naveen Patnaik. Sharing ...

Bhubaneswar:14/3/24:BJP will form government in Odisha, said Manmohan Samal while denying any possibility of an alliance with BJD in the state. This statement of Samal has somehow put all speculations related to BJP-BJD alliance to rest. “We will win the elections with the help and blessings of the people of Odisha and form the State government alone. We will fight the ...

Bhubaneswar:8/3/24: The State Unit president of BJP in Odisha, Manmohan Samal, announced that the saffron party will contest the elections alone in the State, putting to rest all speculations about a possible alliance with BJD. On his arrival from Delhi, Samal stated that they had no discussions regarding any alliance in Odisha. Recently, senior leaders of both parties held separate ...