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Naveen Patnaik is a former five-time Chief Minister of Odisha (File). Bhubaneswar: Ex-Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal – which helped ex-ally Bharatiya Janata Party pass key bills in the Modi government’s first two terms, when it lacked numbers in the Rajya Sabha – seems to have firmly switched sides now and labelled itself…
Naveen Patnaik has said he doing well and hopes to continue to serve the people of Odisha New Delhi: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged a “sudden deterioration” in Naveen Patnaik’s health condition, the Odisha Chief Minister today said he is “very well” and hopes to “continue to serve the people of my…
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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has responded to BJP jibes about his trembling hands and close aide VK Pandian’s efforts to hide it from public view, with his trademark calmness. “I believe the BJP, which is known to make non-issues into issues, are discussing my hands. This will certainly not work,” said the 77-year-old, who,…
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Lok Sabha and Assembly elections are being held simultaneously in Odisha. Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s close aide and senior BJD leader VK Pandian on Tuesday claimed the opposition BJP has “committed nine self goals” during the ongoing Lok Sabha and Odisha Assembly polls thus boosting the regional party’s electoral prospect. Mr Pandian claimed that…
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File photo New Delhi: As the Lok Sabha elections enter its final phase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is confident of his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), returning to power at the Centre and forming a government in Odisha, where assembly elections are being held simultaneously. In an interview with the news agency ANI, the…
Amid the escalating backlash, Mr Patra took to social media to clarify his statement. New Delhi: BJP leader Sambit Patra found himself in the eye of a political storm following an unfortunate slip of the tongue. During an interaction with media after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s roadshow in Odisha’s Puri yesterday, Mr Patra suggested that…
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“I challenge the BJP to declare its CM candidate,” VK Pandian added (File) Bhubaneswar: Senior BJD leader VK Pandian on Saturday challenged the BJP to declare its CM candidate for Odisha and claimed that the party would get less than 10 per cent votes if it names any of its current state leaders. Campaigning in…
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a public meeting in Odisha’s Kandhamal, issued a bold challenge to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. PM Modi urged Mr Patnaik to name all the districts of Odisha without the aid of written notes. This challenge, as PM Modi framed it, was a litmus test of Naveen Patnaik’s intimate…
The party plans to continue and expand initiatives like the KALIA scheme. Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Thursday unveiled its manifesto for the simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls to make Odisha the No. 1 state in the country by 2036. Releasing the regional party’s manifesto, BJD president Naveen Patnaik announced the…
PM Modi is in Odisha to campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha and state polls Baharampur (Odisha): Loot by the Congress and then Biju Janata Dal for over seven decades after Independence kept resources-rich Odisha poor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a rally in Behrampur today. The Prime Minister was campaigning for the BJP…
