Bhubaneswar:30/3/24: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its second list of candidates for Lok Sabha elections in Odisha. The BJP, in a press release on the day, said its Central election committee has finalised the names of candidates for the Lok Sabha seats of Cuttack, Kandhamal, and Jajpur. As per the list, the saffron party has nominated Bhartruhari ...

Bhubaneswar:30/3/24:Most of the big Ollywood stars who were once star campaigners for the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) have deserted the party. On Saturday two prominent cine stars and BJD leaders — Kendrapara MP Anubhav Mohanty and former Korei MLA Akash Das Nayak- quit the party. Ollywood star Arindam Roy had earlier left the party and joined the Bharatiya Janata ...

New Delhi:28/3/24: Senior BJD leader and MP Bhartruhari Mahatab, actor-politician Sidhant Mohapatra and Santali Author Damayanti Beshra joined BJP on Thursday in Delhi. The event took place in the presence of party national general secretary Vinod Tawde, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, party Odisha Chief Manmohan Samal and National Vice President Baijayant Panda. Bhartruhari Mahatab, the son of Odisha’s former Chief Minister ...

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 ...