Odisha Chief Minister Swearing Ceremony: Earlier today, Mr Majhi met Naveen Patnaik and invited him Bhubaneswar: BJP’s tribal leader and four-time MLA Mohan Charan Majhi took oath as Chief Minister of Odisha today. The swearing-in ceremony took place at around 5 pm at Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar. Mohan Majhi is BJP’s first Chief Minister in the …
According to sources, the alliance talks hit hurdles primarily over seat-sharing ratios. New Delhi: The much-anticipated pre-poll alliance and seat-sharing talks between Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have hit a roadblock, raising the prospect of both parties contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha and state assembly elections independently. The …
With a day left for the deadline to submit nomination papers for the February 27 Rajya Sabha elections, the Congress is most likely to unveil the rest of its list on Wednesday. As Manoj CG reported, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi will stay on in Parliament but from the Upper House, representing Rajasthan. Sonia …
Pandian, who joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on November 27, attended the executive committee meeting of the party on Friday. At what was his first party meeting, Pandian cleared the air in the presence of senior party leaders. BJD vice-president Debi Prasad Mishra said Pandian made it clear that he had joined the party …
The BJD’s Puri strongman and former speaker of the Odisha Assembly Maheswar Mohanty passed away while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar early Tuesday. He was 67. Mohanty was admitted to the hospital after he suddenly fell ill on November 1. According to a medical bulletin issued by the private hospital on November …