BJD politics

After having kickstarted his election campaign from Ganjam day before yesterday, BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today carried on his electioneering in Malkangiri and Koraput districts of the same southern parts of the…

Even though sitting Bhubaneswar MP Prasanna Kumar Patsani has not been re-nominated by BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik this time from his traditional seat here, the MP was today seen batting for party ticket for his…

Choudwar-Cuttack MLA (BJD) Prabhat Biswal has decided not to contest the ensuing Assembly polls. Having written a formal letter to BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, sitting MLA Biswal has cited that he prefers to be away…

Kickstarting his poll campaign from Nayagarh yesterday, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo-cum-Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik exuded confidence that the consecutively four-time ruling party is going to clinch all the 21 Lok Sabha seats…

Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) today raised a question mark on the tall claims of Election Commission for conducting free and fair poll in Odisha as the party’s repeated complaints against BJP at Centre have not yet been acted by the…

As BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has not only formed a Manifesto Committee of the party but has also launched a programme for seeking people’s opinion, the Manifesto Committee today held its first meeting and reviewed…

As March 20 had been the deadline set by BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for receiving the opinion boxes from the 86 lakh families in the State for incorporating the inputs in the party manifesto, the ruling party…

As the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) today began announcing the names of its candidates for the nine out of the total 21 Lok Sabha seats and 54 out of the total 147 assembly seats in Odisha, there is possibility of four Rajya Sabha seats of…

As BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has been championing for the 33% reservation for women and has also made it loud and clear at Kendrapara Mission Shakti convention this month that Odisha will send seven woman MPs to…

Sitting Gunupur MLA Trinath Gomango today resigned from primary membership of ruling BJD. Gomango is the second sitting BJD MLA to have resigned from party close on the heels of Nilgiri MLA’s resignation last week.