Since BJD's 2024 defeat in the state & LS elections, leaders have been questioning Patnaik over VK Pandian's role, party's policy in its current Oppn position & now, the waqf bill U-turn.
Group of 10 senior party leaders met BJD chief Naveen Patnaik Friday after whip Sasmit Patra told party’s Rajya Sabha MPs to vote on Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 as per their conscience.
INDIA bloc has been opposing the government's decision to appoint BJP MP Bhartruhari Mahtab as pro-tem Speaker, overlooking Congress's Kodikunnil Suresh.
Bhubaneswar/Kendrapara/Sambalpur: In November last year, when V.K. Pandian — former private secretary to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and a key confidant — quit...
In February, the 59-yr-old left behind a job at Aditya Birla Group to contest LS polls as BJD candidate. He calls it ‘Lord Jagannath’s conspiracy’ to take him back to his roots.
BJP is the party of the future in Odisha, said Pradhan, who has been working as minister in Modi's cabinet and will contest elections after 15 years from Sambalpur Lok Sabha seat.
Odisha will have simultaneous Lok Sabha & assembly elections from 13 May. Puri residents said they prefer Modi at Centre but BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik in the state.
Former Mumbai police commissioner Arup Patnaik vs Sambit Patra in Puri just one example. Odisha BJP chief says party gearing up for full-on fight against BJD.
BJP set to renew efforts to dislodge BJD in Odisha. Party had not prioritised Odisha thus far because of CM Naveen Patnaik’s equation with the Modi government.
In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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