Niranjan patnaik

The burly men stood guard outside the room where a meeting chaired by the Congress’ Odisha unit chief Niranjan Patnaik and state in-charge Jitendra Singh was underway on Friday morning. read more

Several Central trade unions called for the shutdown on a 14-point charter of demands, including social security, minimum wages and employment, among others. read more

Rahul Gandhi, who had fronted the opposition campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has owned responsibility for the crushing defeat. read more

Some more offers to quit are expected to follow as well but a Congress leader said the party may not rush into accepting the resignations. read more

OPCC President Niranjan Patnaik will contest from the Bhandaripokhari Assembly seat in Bhadrak district apart from the Ghasipura Assembly seat in Keonjhar district. read more

The BJP too rejected the allegations made by the Congress with Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan stressing that Modi was “polite, but critical”. read more

Newly-appointed Odisha Congress chief Niranjan Patnaik says he will work to end party factionalism in the state. read more

Rahul Gandhi’s decision to put one of his most trusted aides, Jitendra Singh, in charge of Odisha and appoint Niranjan Patnaik as the chief of the Pradesh Congress Committee seems to have given exactly the shot that the Congress party needed to revive... read more

Niranjan Patnaik made a comeback to the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee president’s post from which he was removed a year before the 2014 elections. read more