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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicBJP Odisha

Topic: BJP Odisha

Odia Asmita is not enough for BJP to stay in power. Caste politics is catching up in Odisha

With the state now aligned with the national ruling party, the demand is shifting from ‘protection of culture’ to ‘proportion of power.’ And it is facing a peculiar reservation paradox.

RSS hand who wanted to become a monk, BJP’s Pratap Sarangi back in focus after charge against Rahul

Ex-Union minister Sarangi was Bajrang Dal coordinator in Odisha during 1999 killing of Australian Graham Staines. He was among those arrested for 2001 storming of Odisha assembly.

Why BJP has embraced the legacy of Odisha’s first Congress CM, Harekrushna Mahtab

Mahtab, a freedom fighter, social reformer & Gandhian, is considered an architect of modern Odisha who helped shape Odia asmita (pride). His son, Bhartruhari Mahtab, is now a BJP MP.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.