BJP is seeking to build its own political base of retired civil servants and former police officers in the state to match the BJD’s in Odisha. read more

Nabin Swain who had offered Amit Shah lunch joined the Biju Janata Dal. Shah was in Odisha’s Ganjam district last year while he was starting the ‘Mission 120 programme’. read more

In an apparent dig at officials close to Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, BJP president Amit Shah said they must remember that no government is permanent. read more

Addressing a women’s meet in Odisha’s Puri, BJP president Amit Shah hit out at the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government saying it is responsible for backwardness and poverty in the mineral-rich state. read more

Says both the parties ignored needs of people for their own interests. read more

Baijayant Jay Panda, who quit the BJD in May, said the charge was a brazen attempt to stop him from moving around. The Chilika lake is an eco-sensitive zone with a no-flying restriction. read more

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The Congress in-charge for the state Jitender Singh last week said that the party would announce candidates for 50 of the 147-membered state assembly by August-end, which a senior party leader said was meant to send a message that Congress was no longer... read more

Bhartruhari Mehtab,\u2007BJD’s Lok Sabha floor leader, said the party thought its support for the NDA nominee Harivansh in the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman polls would bring good sense on the UPA. read more

Stung by defeat, some Opposition MPs are privately wondering why the election for Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson was fought at all read more

BJD’s support from a position of equidistance from NDA helped Harivansh Narayan Singh get 125 votes in Rajya Sabha but in the process Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik has managed to take the sting out of the BJP’s concerted attack on him. read more

For the past month, all calculations by the anti-NDA camp had indicated that it would need the BJD’s support to win the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman election. Yet, NCP was asked to reach out to Naveen Patnaik at the last moment. By the time he did, PM... read more

BJD defended the move saying their support for Harivansh Narayan Singh was in fact for Janata Dal (United). read more

The BJD‘s likely support to NDA candidate in the election for Rajya Sabha deputy chairman is the third sign in recent weeks of a new warmth in the otherwise frosty relationship between Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s party and the BJP. read more

The NDA government cruised to an over a two-thirds (at 72%, close to three-fourths) majority in the house, decisively defeating a no-confidence motion, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the stage for the 2019 elections. read more