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Bhubaneswar: With a convincing victory in the Jharsuguda by-election on Saturday, the ruling Biju Janata Dal led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Odisha is back on a winning streak ahead of the assembly and Lok Sabha polls next year.…

New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said his Biju Janata Dal (BJD) will go solo in the next year's Lok Sabha polls as it has "always" done, days after JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar met him amid efforts to forge a united…

Veteran Congress leader and six-time MLA Suresh Routray Thursday announced his retirement from electoral politics and said his son, Manmath Routray, would contest the next polls from Jatani assembly constituency in Odisha. Addressing a…

Kolkata: When he quit the Congress in 2019, Naba Kisore Das, who was fatally shot by his former personal security officer (PSO) Sunday, told then Congress president Rahul Gandhi that the people of his constituency wanted him to join the…

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The Election Commission could not demonstrate the functioning of a prototype of the proposed remote electronic voting machine (REVM) following overwhelming resistance from Opposition parties. The parties questioned the intention of using…

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New Delhi: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) was formed at a time the BJP was seeking to find a foothold in the coastal state of Odisha which, as the latter realised, it could only do by forging an alliance with a regional partner. This regional…

Last Updated: December 26, 2022, 14:35 ISTOdisha CM and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik. (File Photo: IANS)The Biju Janata Dal was founded on December 26, 1997, and named after its legendary leader Biju Patnaik, the father of Chief Minister…