Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik will be meeting party colleagues on Friday. Patnaik came back to Bhubaneswar on Thursday night to a grand welcome by partymen who came in huge numbers to show solidarity after a rebellion by Naveen's confidant and BJD MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra on Tuesday. The revolt led by Pyari took place while Patnaik was on a week-long official tour to the UK...
07:51 AM, Jun 01, 2012
In Odisha, the BJD and the CPM have given a bandh call against the petrol price hike which has completely paralysed the state. ...
08:49 AM, May 31, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Senior BJD leader and MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra on Wednesday alleged that a gangster has been hired by one of his party MLAs to kill him. "A Kolkata-based gangster Sunil Dutta has been engaged by an MLA of our party. I will not disclose the name of the MLA. I will tell everything to the chief minister," Mohapatra told reporters. Stating that he had already informed the matter to...
03:25 PM, May 30, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra on Wednesday dismissed reports of any split within the party and said that Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik continues to be the party leader. BJD MP Jay Panda also said that there was no rebellion within the BJD. "We have had a lot of discussions earlier. There is no dissidence in the party. Grievances have increased because the party organisation is...
10:20 AM, May 30, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is heading towards a split with Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's confidante and BJD MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra has reportedly turned rebellious against him. CNN-IBN has now learnt that Patnaik is cutting short his first visit to London in ten years and rushing home. Reacting to the crisis he said, "I understand that in my absence an MP of my party is stirring trouble...
08:27 AM, May 30, 2012
Bhubaneswar: In a possible revolt against the Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha, more than 25 Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLAs and four ministers the Chief Minister's rival Pyari Mohan Mahapatra at his residence in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. Notably, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is currently in London and scheduled to return on June 1. According to BJD vice president Damodar Rout, some MLAs met Pyari Mohan Mahapatra and are planning to...
10:52 PM, May 29, 2012
There are reports that both the Congress and the NCP won't back PA Sangma's candidature for the President's post. ...
11:17 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil's term comes to an end on July 25 and the race for her successor is heating up. While the two major national parties, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are yet to reveal their candidates for the next occupant of the Rashtrapati Bhawan, former Lok Sabha speaker and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader PA Sangma has thrown in his hat in the...
03:26 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: NCP leader and former Lok Sabha speaker PA Sangma has said that he was a serious candidate for the President's post. He met BJD chief and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at his residence on Tuesday. The two leaders discussed Sangma's prospects as a Presidential candidate. Praising Sangma, Patnaiik said that Sangma was by far the best Presidential candidate. "Without doubt, he is by far the best candidate...
11:33 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The BSP on Saturday indicated that it would not be aligning itself with any Third Front in the President's election or the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. "Our party has not thought about. We are not going to fall into traps", party supremo Mayawati told a press conference when asked whether she would initiate any move for formation of a non-NDA and non-UPA alliance for the 2014 Lok Sabha...
04:59 PM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar pulled up party leader and former Lok Sabha speaker PA Sangma for projecting himself as a Presidential candidate. This came a day after the BJD and AIADMK supported the candidature of the former Lok Sabha speaker. The NCP had made it clear that the party couldn't aspire for such a big post as it didn't have the numbers. Odisha Chief Minister...
09:50 AM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: There's a new name in the growing list of Presidential hopefuls. For the first time on Thursday, two political parties came out with a joint name for President. Former Speaker PA Sangma, who had been lobbying for a Scheduled Tribe as the next President, has got support from AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. However, Sangma so far has failed to get his own party,...
09:30 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Indicating that it was not impressed by AIADMK and BJD's decision to support NCP leader PA Sangma for President, BJP on Thursday said it will take a call on the candidature for the top post and is unlikely to rally behind the former Lok Sabha Speaker. Sangma's possible candidature for Presidential poll became a talking point when AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik extended their...
08:40 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Another name has now came up in the race for the next President of India. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has said that the BJD and the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK will support NCP leader and former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma. Patnaik's announcement follows his recent meeting with AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa in Chennai. The former Lok Sabha speaker had met Jayalalithaa two days ago. Jayalalithaa said, "Following a letter...
03:09 PM, May 17, 2012
Chennai: Triggering speculation of a possible realignment among non-UPA and non-NDA parties, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik met on Friday, pointing to the "natural synergy" between them. But the Presidential election issue did not figure at the luncheon meeting held at the Poes Garden residence of Jayalalithaa, said the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister. "If we had discussed anything like that, we would have...
07:02 PM, May 11, 2012
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